{"id":6386,"date":"2019-05-10T23:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2019-05-10T23:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T03:46:20","slug":"delight-in-whats-before-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"Delight in What&#8217;s Before You"},"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\/05\/Boyle-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boyle-24.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boyle-24-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Boyle-24-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>God, right there, today, in the person in front of me, joy beyond holding, beholding this day, Paradise. You delight in what is before you today in Christ. Richard Rolheiser writes that, &#8220;the opposite of depression is not happiness, it&#8217;s delight.&#8221; After all, we breathe the Spirit that delights in our being. We don&#8217;t breathe in the Spirit that just sort of puts up with our mess. It&#8217;s about delight.<\/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. 159<\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00c2\u00a0 Bull Run Regional Park, Virginia, April 8, 2019<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, right there, today, in the person in front of me, joy beyond holding, beholding this day, Paradise. You delight in what is before you today in Christ. Richard Rolheiser writes that, &#8220;the opposite of depression is not happiness, it&#8217;s delight.&#8221; After all, we breathe the Spirit that delights in our being. We don&#8217;t breathe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,13,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connection","category-god","category-joy","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","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=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}