{"id":563,"date":"2008-07-14T22:59:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T02:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/07\/14\/something-to-look-forward-to\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T02:59:02","slug":"something-to-look-forward-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Something To Look Forward To"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been noticing that most mornings I don’t wake up super-happy, and I’m not sure why.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve also been noticing for some time now that when I first wake up, I find myself racing through the coming day in my mind, bracing myself for what’s required of me, but even more so searching to see if there is anything to look forward to.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not really voluntary.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s almost as if my heart has a life of its own, and it wakes up before I do and begins to assess the prospects before me.\u00c2\u00a0 “I slept but my heart was awake” (Song of Songs 5:2).<\/p>\n

By the way, I think this is how our addictions get their claws deeper into us.\u00c2\u00a0 Our day-to-day grind isn’t anything close to Eden, and our hurting and desperate hearts look for something to which we can attach all those yearnings.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll settle for a doughnut if that’s all there is to look forward to.\u00c2\u00a0 We have to be careful what we give our hearts to.<\/p>\n

— John Eldredge, Walking with God, <\/em>p. 92<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been noticing that most mornings I don’t wake up super-happy, and I’m not sure why.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve also been noticing for some time now that when I first wake up, I find myself racing through the coming day in my mind, bracing myself for what’s required of me, but even more so searching to see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}