{"id":8964,"date":"2021-03-08T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T03:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2021-03-08T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T03:59:07","slug":"is-the-table-big-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8964","title":{"rendered":"Is the Table Big Enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pavlovitz-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pavlovitz-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pavlovitz-28.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pavlovitz-28-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pavlovitz-28-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if <em>you<\/em> believe the table really is big enough for you, for those you love, for those you find difficult to love, for those who have little love for you.  Because ultimately if you do, you have a decision to make: You&#8217;re either going to be a builder &#8212; or you&#8217;re not.  You&#8217;re either going to deny yourself and take up the costly cross of sacrifice and keep seeking to come humbly, or you&#8217;re going to defiantly barricade yourself within your rightness and your righteousness and wait for the check to come.  You&#8217;re either going to try to live as a selfless servant or look to die a spiteful martyr.  I still do believe in the bigger table, but it&#8217;s more difficult than ever to keep that faith, probably because the resistance to it is so great.  We have to be the resistance to that resistance.  In the face of a loud hatred, we need to be a louder, more loving response.  We have to become activists of goodness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Pavlovitz, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/bigger_table.html\">A Bigger Table<\/a><\/em>, p. 173<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Glendalough, Ireland, July 2001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if you believe the table really is big enough for you, for those you love, for those you find difficult to love, for those who have little love for you. Because ultimately if you do, you have a decision to make: You&#8217;re either going to be a builder &#8212; or you&#8217;re not. You&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-community","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964","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=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}