{"id":6368,"date":"2018-12-25T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2018-12-25T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T02:00:28","slug":"dedicated-to-gladness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6368","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated to Gladness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Boyle-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Boyle-16.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Boyle-16-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Boyle-16-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The duty to delight is to stare at your family as they eat, anchored in the surest kind of gratitude &#8212; the sort that erases sacrifice and hardship and absorbs everything else. Jesus says, &#8220;My ways are not your ways,&#8221; but they sure could be. In the utter simplicity of breathing, we find how naturally inclined we are to delight and to stay dedicated to gladness. We bask in God&#8217;s unalloyed joy, and we let loose with that same joy in whoever is in front of us. We forget what a vital part of our nature this is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <em>Tattoos on the Heart<\/em>, p. 149-150<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, March 31, 2018<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duty to delight is to stare at your family as they eat, anchored in the surest kind of gratitude &#8212; the sort that erases sacrifice and hardship and absorbs everything else. Jesus says, &#8220;My ways are not your ways,&#8221; but they sure could be. In the utter simplicity of breathing, we find how naturally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","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=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7779,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/7779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}