{"id":6382,"date":"2019-03-26T21:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6382"},"modified":"2019-03-26T21:42:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:42:11","slug":"gods-joy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6382","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Joy"},"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\/2019\/03\/Boyle-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Boyle-22.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Boyle-22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Boyle-22-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>You want to be there when the poetry happens. Isaiah has God say: &#8220;Be glad forever and rejoice in what I create . . . for I create my people to be a delight.&#8221; God thinking we&#8217;d enjoy ourselves. Delighting is what occupies God, and God&#8217;s hope is that we join in. That God&#8217;s joy may be in us and this joy may be complete. We just happen to be God&#8217;s joy. That takes some getting used to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/tattoos_on_the_heart.html\"><em>Tattoos on the Heart<\/em><\/a>, p. 158<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Oregon Coast, August 6, 2014<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to be there when the poetry happens. Isaiah has God say: &#8220;Be glad forever and rejoice in what I create . . . for I create my people to be a delight.&#8221; God thinking we&#8217;d enjoy ourselves. Delighting is what occupies God, and God&#8217;s hope is that we join in. That God&#8217;s joy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382","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=6382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7938,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6382\/revisions\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}