{"id":7705,"date":"2018-12-16T23:12:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7705"},"modified":"2018-12-16T23:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T03:21:57","slug":"pouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7705","title":{"rendered":"Pouting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mason-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mason-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mason-13.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mason-13-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Mason-13-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we think it unreasonable to expect ourselves to rejoice in suffering, try looking at the other side:  Isn&#8217;t it unreasonable <em>not<\/em> to rejoice?  Taking into account God&#8217;s great love and faithfulness, and the promise of our eternal reward in heaven, isn&#8217;t a joyless attitude like a small child&#8217;s tantrum?  Feeling powerless, we either shut down or throw a fit as the only means of retaliating against the one who does hold power.<\/p>\n<p>Unhappiness is a form of pouting.  It&#8217;s a way of saying, &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t suffer like this; it&#8217;s scandalous; I don&#8217;t deserve it and I won&#8217;t accept it.&#8221;  Fine.  Your unhappiness will continue until you do accept it.  You&#8217;d rather be right than happy.<\/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. 112<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  San Pedro, California, January 2, 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we think it unreasonable to expect ourselves to rejoice in suffering, try looking at the other side: Isn&#8217;t it unreasonable not to rejoice? Taking into account God&#8217;s great love and faithfulness, and the promise of our eternal reward in heaven, isn&#8217;t a joyless attitude like a small child&#8217;s tantrum? Feeling powerless, we either shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-joy","category-trials","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","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=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}