{"id":8692,"date":"2021-02-15T21:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8692"},"modified":"2021-02-15T21:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:20:32","slug":"a-generous-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8692","title":{"rendered":"A Generous Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kolber-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kolber-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kolber-6.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kolber-6-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your story differs from the ones my mom and I tell, but the courage and perseverance you&#8217;ve drawn on just to survive are beautiful too.  You can continue to connect with those parts of yourself that are brave and strong.  That is the beauty of cowriting a new story with God:  We get to choose what to cultivate and what we must learn to forgive in ourselves.  I encourage you to see your story through a generous lens.  Where are the nuggets of goodness for you to mine?  Don&#8217;t forget these treasures.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Aundi Kolber, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/try_softer.html\">Try Softer<\/a><\/em>, p. 222<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, March 6, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your story differs from the ones my mom and I tell, but the courage and perseverance you&#8217;ve drawn on just to survive are beautiful too. You can continue to connect with those parts of yourself that are brave and strong. That is the beauty of cowriting a new story with God: We get to choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-healing","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","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=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8905,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions\/8905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}