{"id":8129,"date":"2020-04-10T20:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T00:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2020-04-10T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T00:19:57","slug":"learning-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8129","title":{"rendered":"Learning Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Berlin-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Berlin-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Berlin-6.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Berlin-6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I found curiosity a much more loving posture than judgment.  I also came to understand that when I am curious about someone, they often feel valued.  It is easy to care about people after you know their story and hard to judge them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I think that is what Jesus had in mind for us.  Knowing people&#8217;s stories ignites the caring God desires for us to extend.  An easy way to love others is to start with a question.  Listen to their story.  Don&#8217;t rush in with solutions or advice or offer up your latest big idea.  Be inquisitive and attend to what people offer you.  Rome was not built in a day and trust is not built in a minute.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8211;Tom Berlin, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/reckless_love.html\">Reckless Love<\/a>, <\/em>p. 105-106<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\nPhoto: South Riding, Virginia, April 2, 2020","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found curiosity a much more loving posture than judgment. I also came to understand that when I am curious about someone, they often feel valued. It is easy to care about people after you know their story and hard to judge them. I think that is what Jesus had in mind for us. Knowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17,56,15,27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-compassion","category-jesus","category-love","category-relationships","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","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=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8409,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/8409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}