{"id":4073,"date":"2016-02-26T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2016-02-26T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T01:22:57","slug":"healing-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between curing and healing, and I believe the church is called to the slow and difficult work of healing.  We are called to enter into one another&#8217;s pain, anoint it as holy, and stick around no matter the outcome&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about healing, as opposed to curing, is that it is relational.  It takes time.  It is inefficient, like a meandering river.  Rarely does healing follow a straight or well-lit path.  Rarely does it conform to our expectations or resolve in a timely manner.  Walking with someone through grief, or through the process of reconciliation, requires patience, presence, and a willingness to wander, to take the scenic route.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em>Searching for Sunday<\/em>, p. 208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a difference between curing and healing, and I believe the church is called to the slow and difficult work of healing. We are called to enter into one another&#8217;s pain, anoint it as holy, and stick around no matter the outcome&#8230;. The thing about healing, as opposed to curing, is that it 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":[36,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-healing","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","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=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}