{"id":3492,"date":"2013-11-06T00:12:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T04:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2013-11-06T00:16:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T04:16:52","slug":"celebrating-gods-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3492","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating God&#8217;s Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.  You can say, &#8220;Since you are not God, I love you because you have such beautiful gifts of God&#8217;s love.&#8221;  You don&#8217;t have everything of God, but what you have to offer is worth celebrating.  By celebrate, I mean to lift up, affirm, confirm, to rejoice in another person&#8217;s gifts.  You can say you are a reflection of that unlimited love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Henri J. M. Nouwen, <em>The Only Necessary Thing<\/em>, p. 150-151<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God. You can say, &#8220;Since you are not God, I love you because you have such beautiful gifts of God&#8217;s love.&#8221; You don&#8217;t have everything of God, but what you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,11,13,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connection","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-joy","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","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=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}