{"id":4067,"date":"2016-02-03T23:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T03:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4067"},"modified":"2016-02-03T23:46:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T03:46:03","slug":"more-labyrinth-than-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4067","title":{"rendered":"More Labyrinth than Maze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between a labyrinth and a maze is that a labyrinth has no dead ends&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It has become clich\u00c3\u00a9 to talk about faith as a journey, and yet the metaphor holds.  Scripture doesn&#8217;t speak of people who <em>found<\/em> God.  Scripture speaks of people who <em>walked<\/em> with God.  This is a keep-moving, one-foot-in-front-of-the-other, who-knows-what&#8217;s-next deal, and you never exactly arrive.  I don&#8217;t know if the path&#8217;s all drawn out ahead of time, or if it corkscrews with each step like in Alice&#8217;s Wonderland, or if, as some like to say, we make the road by walking, but I believe the journey is more labyrinth than maze.  No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Held Evans, <em>Searching for Sunday<\/em>, p. 180<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between a labyrinth and a maze is that a labyrinth has no dead ends&#8230;. It has become clich\u00c3\u00a9 to talk about faith as a journey, and yet the metaphor holds. Scripture doesn&#8217;t speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God. This is a keep-moving, one-foot-in-front-of-the-other, who-knows-what&#8217;s-next deal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067","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=4067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}