{"id":597,"date":"2008-08-26T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/08\/26\/making-sense\/"},"modified":"2008-08-26T22:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T02:52:30","slug":"making-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that our lives actually make sense, every part &#8212; the good and the bad?\u00c2\u00a0 Those deep yearnings that catch us by surprise when we hear a certain song on the radio, or watch our children when they aren&#8217;t aware of being watched, are telling us something that <em>is<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 truer about life than the Message of the Arrows.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems too good to be true, which ought to raise even deeper suspicions that it is true.\u00c2\u00a0 As Chesterton recounts in <em>Orthodoxy, <\/em>he &#8220;had always believed that the world involved magic:\u00c2\u00a0 now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. . . .\u00c2\u00a0 I had always felt life first as a story; and if there is a story there is a storyteller.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brent Curtis and John Eldredge, <em>The Sacred Romance, <\/em>p. 44-45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that our lives actually make sense, every part &#8212; the good and the bad?\u00c2\u00a0 Those deep yearnings that catch us by surprise when we hear a certain song on the radio, or watch our children when they aren&#8217;t aware of being watched, are telling us something that is\u00c2\u00a0 truer about life than [&hellip;]<\/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-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}