{"id":765,"date":"2009-04-08T23:21:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T03:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/04\/08\/doorway-to-growth\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T23:21:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T03:21:41","slug":"doorway-to-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Doorway to Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to forgive because they deserve it.  Frankly, they don&#8217;t.  But just as Jesus chose to forgive us even before we&#8217;d repented, the choice to forgive opens the way for the most meaningful growth we can experience in life.  If you think you can&#8217;t possibly forgive, do it instead to set yourself free from that pain.  Do it in hopes that trust will one day return.  But do it soon, and accept that it&#8217;s simply a part of living life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Cheryl &#038; Jeff Scruggs, <em>I Do Again,<\/em> p. 177<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to forgive because they deserve it. Frankly, they don&#8217;t. But just as Jesus chose to forgive us even before we&#8217;d repented, the choice to forgive opens the way for the most meaningful growth we can experience in life. If you think you can&#8217;t possibly forgive, do it instead to set yourself free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-growth","category-healing","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}