{"id":6419,"date":"2018-06-07T22:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2018-06-07T22:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:59:41","slug":"more-life-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6419","title":{"rendered":"More Life and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Die-to-Something.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Die-to-Something.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Die-to-Something.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Die-to-Something-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Die-to-Something-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really hate that Jesus&#8217; Gospel is so much about death.  I hate it.  I wish that Jesus&#8217; message was, <em>Follow me and all your dreams of cash and prizes will come true; follow me and you&#8217;ll have free liposuction and winning lotto tickets for life.<\/em>  But obviously he&#8217;s not like that.  Jesus says, &#8220;Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow me.&#8221;  He says, &#8220;The first shall be last and the last shall be first,&#8221; and infuriating things like &#8220;if you seek to find your life you will lose it but those who lose their life will find it.&#8221;  And every single time I die to something &#8212; my notions of my own specialness, my plans and desires for something to be a very particular way &#8212; every single time I fight it and yet every single time I discover more life and more freedom than if I had gotten what I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nadia Bolz-Weber, <em>Pastrix<\/em>, p. 186-187<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: Hug Point, Oregon, November 10, 2015]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate that Jesus&#8217; Gospel is so much about death. I hate it. I wish that Jesus&#8217; message was, Follow me and all your dreams of cash and prizes will come true; follow me and you&#8217;ll have free liposuction and winning lotto tickets for life. But obviously he&#8217;s not like that. Jesus says, &#8220;Deny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,19,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-letting-go","category-trials","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419","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=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}