{"id":501,"date":"2008-05-24T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/24\/the-shepherd\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T00:59:08","slug":"the-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"The Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to the shepherd and the sheep.\u00c2\u00a0 When the sheep follow the shepherd, they find pasture.\u00c2\u00a0 They find life.\u00c2\u00a0 Life doesn&#8217;t just magically come to us.\u00c2\u00a0 We have to make ourselves available to it.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a lifestyle that allows us to receive the life of God.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that if I will live more intimately with Jesus and follow his voice, I will have a much better chance of finding the life I long for.\u00c2\u00a0 I know it.\u00c2\u00a0 If I will listen to his voice and let him set the pace, if I will cooperate in my transformation, I will be a much happier man.\u00c2\u00a0 And so a new prayer has begun to rise within me.\u00c2\u00a0 I am asking God, <em>What is the life you want me to live?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Eldredge, <em>Walking with God, <\/em>p. 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to the shepherd and the sheep.\u00c2\u00a0 When the sheep follow the shepherd, they find pasture.\u00c2\u00a0 They find life.\u00c2\u00a0 Life doesn&#8217;t just magically come to us.\u00c2\u00a0 We have to make ourselves available to it.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a lifestyle that allows us to receive the life of God.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that if I will live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-guidance","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}