{"id":3686,"date":"2015-01-04T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2015-01-04T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:23:25","slug":"lack-of-forgiveness-isnt-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Forgiveness Isn&#8217;t Worth It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left to my own devices, I&#8217;m a forgiveness denier &#8212; I&#8217;ll start to think that there are hurts so deep that nothing can heal them.  Time alone won&#8217;t necessarily do the trick.  Our best thinking isn&#8217;t enough, or we would all be fine, instead of in our current condition.  A lack of forgiveness is like leprosy of the insides, and left untreated, it can take out tissue, equilibrium, soul, sense of self.  I have sometimes considered writing a book called <em>All the People I Still Hate: A Christian Perspective.<\/em>, but readers would recoil.  Also, getting older means that without meaning to, you accidentally forgive almost everyone &#8212; almost &#8212; so the book would not be long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Anne Lamott, <em>Small Victories<\/em>, p. 105-106<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to my own devices, I&#8217;m a forgiveness denier &#8212; I&#8217;ll start to think that there are hurts so deep that nothing can heal them. Time alone won&#8217;t necessarily do the trick. Our best thinking isn&#8217;t enough, or we would all be fine, instead of in our current condition. A lack of forgiveness is like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","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=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}