{"id":8652,"date":"2020-08-28T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8652"},"modified":"2020-08-28T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T02:57:07","slug":"one-caring-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8652","title":{"rendered":"One Caring Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-14.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Rohr-14-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Spirit seems to work best underground.  When aboveground, humans start fighting about it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can call this grace, the indwelling Holy Spirit, or just evolution toward union (which we call &#8220;love&#8221;).  God is not in competition with anybody, but <em>only in deep-time cooperation with everybody who loves<\/em> (Romans 8:28).  Whenever we place one caring foot forward, God uses it, sustains it, and blesses it.  Our impulse does not need to wear the name of religion at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/universal_christ.html\">The Universal Christ<\/a><\/em>, p. 100<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, August 23, 2020<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spirit seems to work best underground. When aboveground, humans start fighting about it. You can call this grace, the indwelling Holy Spirit, or just evolution toward union (which we call &#8220;love&#8221;). God is not in competition with anybody, but only in deep-time cooperation with everybody who loves (Romans 8:28). Whenever we place one caring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652","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=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}