{"id":710,"date":"2009-01-17T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/01\/17\/brokenness-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-17T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:50:04","slug":"brokenness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Brokenness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something bad happens.\u00c2\u00a0 I hurt.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel unhappy.\u00c2\u00a0 I long to feel good.\u00c2\u00a0 I ask God for help.\u00c2\u00a0 I am resolved to feel better.\u00c2\u00a0 I do whatever I can to make at least a few dreams come true.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>That is the way of the flesh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Something bad happens.\u00c2\u00a0 I hurt.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel unhappy.\u00c2\u00a0 I long to feel good.\u00c2\u00a0 But I trust God.\u00c2\u00a0 His pleasure matters more than mine.\u00c2\u00a0 But His pleasure includes mine.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe that.\u00c2\u00a0 So I abandon myself to His pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0 I live to please Him.\u00c2\u00a0 I work hard and live responsibly and strive to put balance in my life because that pleases Him.\u00c2\u00a0 Making Him feel good is a higher priority than making me feel good.\u00c2\u00a0 And somehow, inevitably, at some point, I discover joy.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>That is the way of the Spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I shift from walking in the way of the flesh to walking in the way of the Spirit when the pain of life destroys my confidence in my ability to make life work and when it exposes as intolerable, insubordinate arrogance my demand to feel good.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the experience of brokenness.\u00c2\u00a0 It is then that the chain falls off my leg and the heavy ball rolls away.\u00c2\u00a0 It is then that I fly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Larry Crabb, <em>Shattered Dreams, <\/em>p. 153-154<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something bad happens.\u00c2\u00a0 I hurt.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel unhappy.\u00c2\u00a0 I long to feel good.\u00c2\u00a0 I ask God for help.\u00c2\u00a0 I am resolved to feel better.\u00c2\u00a0 I do whatever I can to make at least a few dreams come true.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the way of the flesh. Something bad happens.\u00c2\u00a0 I hurt.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel unhappy.\u00c2\u00a0 I long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life","category-trials","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}