{"id":8513,"date":"2020-05-18T23:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T03:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2020-05-18T23:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T03:43:37","slug":"permanent-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8513","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mason-29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mason-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mason-29.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mason-29-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Mason-29-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joy is a permanent facet of the character of God who lives in me by His Holy Spirit.  The more I believe this, the more it changes me, and the more this change is no flash in the pan but a permanent change of character.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus gives His word that my joy will never be taken away.  It inhabits a place in me that nothing and no one else can touch or influence, so long as I&#8217;m careful to honor that place.  I may surrender my joy, but no person, nor any circumstance, can take it from me.  It&#8217;s here to stay so long as I trust it.  When I keep a wary eye on joy, fearful that she&#8217;ll slip away, I cannot fully relax to enjoy her.  To the extent that I disbelieve in joy&#8217;s permanence, I&#8217;ll find her to be a fickle friend &#8212; exactly as fickle as my faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mike Mason, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/champagne_for_the_soul.html\">Champagne for the Soul<\/a><\/em>, p. 168<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, May 18, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy is a permanent facet of the character of God who lives in me by His Holy Spirit. The more I believe this, the more it changes me, and the more this change is no flash in the pan but a permanent change of character. Jesus gives His word that my joy will never be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","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=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}