{"id":7333,"date":"2018-10-26T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T03:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2018-10-26T23:17:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T03:17:20","slug":"full-of-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7333","title":{"rendered":"Full of Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mason-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mason-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mason-9.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mason-9-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By its very nature joy is full of surprises.  Isn&#8217;t the unknown an essential ingredient of a happy experience?  The surprise factor brings me news that the God who is far bigger than I am is alive and well and up to His marvels.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of this book lies a paradox:  While I can deliberately plan and choose to be joyful, I can never plan exactly how joy will happen.  Each day it surprises me, because surprise is a part of joy&#8217;s nature.  Each day I have to bob around in the waves, waiting for the big one, and when I catch it I shout and gasp with pleasure.  And then I paddle out again, knowing there&#8217;s always another wave of joy where the last one came from.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\">Champagne for the Soul<\/a><\/em>, p. 100<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Paris, France, May 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By its very nature joy is full of surprises. Isn&#8217;t the unknown an essential ingredient of a happy experience? The surprise factor brings me news that the God who is far bigger than I am is alive and well and up to His marvels. At the heart of this book lies a paradox: While I [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","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=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}