{"id":678,"date":"2008-12-12T23:04:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T03:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/12\/12\/gods-fatherly-love\/"},"modified":"2008-12-12T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T03:04:57","slug":"gods-fatherly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Fatherly Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been asked, and many times, &#8220;But can&#8217;t we choose to exclude ourselves?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t we, as children, haven&#8217;t our own children flung out of the room in anger?\u00c2\u00a0 And haven&#8217;t we waited for them to come back?\u00c2\u00a0 We have not slammed the door in their faces.\u00c2\u00a0 We have welcomed them home.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesus said, &#8220;<em>If you . . . know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, <em>The Rock That Is Higher, <\/em>quoted in <em>Glimpses of Grace, <\/em>compiled by Carole F. Chase, p. 318<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been asked, and many times, &#8220;But can&#8217;t we choose to exclude ourselves?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Of course.\u00c2\u00a0 Haven&#8217;t we, as children, haven&#8217;t our own children flung out of the room in anger?\u00c2\u00a0 And haven&#8217;t we waited for them to come back?\u00c2\u00a0 We have not slammed the door in their faces.\u00c2\u00a0 We have welcomed them home.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}