{"id":8948,"date":"2021-03-03T00:34:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8948"},"modified":"2021-03-03T00:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T04:34:12","slug":"how-prayers-are-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8948","title":{"rendered":"How Prayers Are Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Myss-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Myss-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Myss-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Myss-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Myss-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how prayers are answered: some doors get locked and others get opened.  And then there&#8217;s the waiting room.  I know my friend is now in that waiting room, fearing that no door will open for her again now that this one has shut.  I know better, though I have no idea what you&#8217;re up to.  I told her to just surrender the mess of everything to You.  Earthly chaos is really your sandbox.  You will reroute her life.  I told her not to interfere with Your plans for her.  No offering You advice or limitations or restrictions.  Surrender means surrender.  Let go, and let You have at it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Caroline Myss, <em>Intimate Conversations with the Divine<\/em>, p. 119<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bluebell Trail, Bull Run Regional Park, April 18, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how prayers are answered: some doors get locked and others get opened. And then there&#8217;s the waiting room. I know my friend is now in that waiting room, fearing that no door will open for her again now that this one has shut. I know better, though I have no idea what you&#8217;re up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-letting-go","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948","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=8948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8948\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}