{"id":405,"date":"2008-03-07T22:45:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T02:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/03\/07\/our-way-of-living\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T22:45:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T02:45:25","slug":"our-way-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Our Way of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we believe that God has given us everything, then giving will be our way of living.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll still work to earn, because the gift of work is the primary means by which God gives what we have.\u00c2\u00a0 But earning and possessing will become folded into giving.\u00c2\u00a0 God gives us life, powers, abilities, and so we earn and possess.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll earn and possess so we can give, as when we share our food with the hungry; we&#8217;ll give even while earning, as when we create goods and offer services with dedication, care, and wisdom; and we&#8217;ll give even by possessing, as when we open our home for others to enjoy.\u00c2\u00a0 Earning and possessing are not just a bridge between our desires and their satisfaction.\u00c2\u00a0 They are a <em>midpoint <\/em>in the flow of gifts:\u00c2\u00a0 from God to us, and through us to others.\u00c2\u00a0 We give because we have been given to; we don&#8217;t let others simply fend for themselves because we haven&#8217;t been left to fend for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Miroslav Volf, <em>Free of Charge:\u00c2\u00a0 Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace, <\/em>p. 107-108<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we believe that God has given us everything, then giving will be our way of living.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll still work to earn, because the gift of work is the primary means by which God gives what we have.\u00c2\u00a0 But earning and possessing will become folded into giving.\u00c2\u00a0 God gives us life, powers, abilities, and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,20,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-god","category-gratitude","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}