{"id":8379,"date":"2020-08-06T20:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2020-08-06T20:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:37:43","slug":"our-actual-non-ideal-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8379","title":{"rendered":"Our Actual, Non-Ideal Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bolz-Weber-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bolz-Weber-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bolz-Weber-10.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bolz-Weber-10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bolz-Weber-10-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christians should help one another to silence the voice that accuses.  To celebrate a repentance &#8212; a snapping out of it, a thinking of new thoughts &#8212; which leads to possibilities we never considered.  To love one another as God loves us.  To love <em>ourselves<\/em> as God loves us.  To remind each other of the true voice of God.  And there&#8217;s only one way to do this: by being unapologetically and humbly ourselves.  By not pretending.  By being genuine.  Real.  Our actual, non-ideal selves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nadia Bolz-Weber, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/shameless.html\">Shameless<\/a><\/em>, p. 183<\/p>\n<p>Photo: near Skyline Drive, Virginia, August 6, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians should help one another to silence the voice that accuses. To celebrate a repentance &#8212; a snapping out of it, a thinking of new thoughts &#8212; which leads to possibilities we never considered. To love one another as God loves us. To love ourselves as God loves us. To remind each other of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36,25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-community","category-core-value","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379","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=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8627,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions\/8627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}