{"id":3139,"date":"2013-01-20T00:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2013-01-20T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T04:15:34","slug":"in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"In the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When God seems silent and our prayers go unanswered, the overwhelming temptation is to leave the story &#8212; to walk out of the desert and attempt to create a normal life.  But when we persist in a spiritual vacuum, when we hang in there during ambiguity, we get to know God.  In fact, that is how intimacy grows in all close relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Paul E. Miller, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/praying_life.html\">A Praying Life<\/a><\/em>, p. 192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When God seems silent and our prayers go unanswered, the overwhelming temptation is to leave the story &#8212; to walk out of the desert and attempt to create a normal life. But when we persist in a spiritual vacuum, when we hang in there during ambiguity, we get to know God. In fact, that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,18,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-growth","category-prayer","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}