{"id":681,"date":"2008-12-19T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T04:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/12\/19\/god-knows-our-stories\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T00:06:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T04:06:31","slug":"god-knows-our-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"God Knows Our Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the God of Scripture is also the God who refused to nuke Nineveh, even though that&#8217;s what Jonah wanted; who forgave David for a really staggering list of wrongdoings; who wants only for us stiff-necked people to repent and come home; who goes out into the stormy night for the one lost black sheep; who throws a party when the Prodigal Son returns; who loves us so much that God did indeed send his only begotten son to come live with us, as one of us, to help understand our stories &#8212; each one unique, infinitely valuable, irreplaceable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, <em>The Rock That Is Higher, <\/em>quoted in <em>Glimpses of Grace, <\/em>collected by Carole F. Chase, p. 323<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the God of Scripture is also the God who refused to nuke Nineveh, even though that&#8217;s what Jonah wanted; who forgave David for a really staggering list of wrongdoings; who wants only for us stiff-necked people to repent and come home; who goes out into the stormy night for the one lost black sheep; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}