{"id":650,"date":"2008-10-27T23:09:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/10\/27\/dont-get-ahead-of-your-nose\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T03:10:36","slug":"dont-get-ahead-of-your-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Get Ahead of Your Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s presence can&#8217;t be experienced except moment by moment, and that means we have to show up in each moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting ahead of this moment in regard to our relationships, our vocations, our dreams, and aspirations simply prevents us from knowing God. . . .<\/p>\n<p>In my role as a mentor to a number of young women, I often say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t get ahead of your nose.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great reminder that one is projecting, and it quickly brings us back to the present.\u00c2\u00a0 I also suggest that whenever thoughts of the future come into your mind, you envision blowing them away.\u00c2\u00a0 This may sound silly but it&#8217;s effective.\u00c2\u00a0 I have used it for years.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Casey, <em>Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow, <\/em>p. 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s presence can&#8217;t be experienced except moment by moment, and that means we have to show up in each moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting ahead of this moment in regard to our relationships, our vocations, our dreams, and aspirations simply prevents us from knowing God. . . . In my role as a mentor to a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-letting-go","category-life","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}