{"id":8309,"date":"2020-02-22T00:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T04:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2020-02-22T00:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T04:29:37","slug":"never-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Never Giving Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ferwerda-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ferwerda-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ferwerda-3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ferwerda-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it not the same with our own children, each their own yet fully out of us?  When I think of the bond earthly parents have with our children, I know it is utterly impossible that God would ever ask us to lose a part of ourselves forever, any more than He would ever intend to give up a part of Himself.  His answer is not damnation, but regeneration of all His children into <em>purified<\/em> sparks!<\/p>\n<p>Jesus always esteemed children because He came to show the heart of the Father toward His children.  A true father&#8217;s love cannot be earned, and it cannot be done away with.  Just as we would never give up on our children, God will never give up on His children; His love will not fail them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Julie Ferwerda, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/raising_hell.html\">Raising Hell<\/a><\/em>, p. 82<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, February 24, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it not the same with our own children, each their own yet fully out of us? When I think of the bond earthly parents have with our children, I know it is utterly impossible that God would ever ask us to lose a part of ourselves forever, any more than He would ever intend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love","category-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","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=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}