{"id":55,"date":"2007-08-31T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/08\/31\/letting-it-go-to-god\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T17:39:29","slug":"letting-it-go-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Letting It Go&#8211;To God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forgiveness is not defined by a feeling, although it will ultimately change our feelings. . . .\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is our determined and deliberate willingness to let something go.\u00c2\u00a0 To release it from our possession.\u00c2\u00a0 To be willing and ready for it to no longer occupy us.\u00c2\u00a0 God is not asking us to let &#8216;it&#8217; go haphazardly into the black hole of nonexistence.\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness means letting it go <em>to God.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Letting it go from our power to <em>His.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is the <em>ongoing<\/em> act by which we agree with God over the matter, practice the mercy He&#8217;s extended to us, and surrender the situation, the repercussions, and the hurtful person to Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Beth Moore, <em>Praying God&#8217;s Word<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forgiveness is not defined by a feeling, although it will ultimately change our feelings. . . .\u00c2\u00a0 Forgiveness is our determined and deliberate willingness to let something go.\u00c2\u00a0 To release it from our possession.\u00c2\u00a0 To be willing and ready for it to no longer occupy us.\u00c2\u00a0 God is not asking us to let &#8216;it&#8217; go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}