{"id":8991,"date":"2021-03-19T23:47:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2021-03-19T23:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T03:47:50","slug":"again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8991","title":{"rendered":"Again and Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nouwen-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nouwen-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nouwen-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nouwen-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nouwen-3-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning I meditated on God&#8217;s eagerness to forgive me, revealed in these words: &#8220;As far as the East is from the West, so far does God remove my sin&#8221; (Psalm 103:12).  In the midst of all my distractions, I was touched by God&#8217;s desire to forgive me again and again.  If I return to God with a repentant heart after I have sinned, God is always there to embrace me and let me start afresh.  &#8220;The Lord is full of compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is hard for me to forgive someone who has really offended me, especially when it happens more than once.  I begin to doubt the sincerity of the one who asks forgiveness for a second, third, or fourth time.  But God does not keep count.  God just waits for our return, without resentment or desire for revenge.  God wants us home.  &#8220;The love of the Lord is everlasting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Henri J. M. Nouwen, <em>You Are Beloved<\/em>, p. 87<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, March 19, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I meditated on God&#8217;s eagerness to forgive me, revealed in these words: &#8220;As far as the East is from the West, so far does God remove my sin&#8221; (Psalm 103:12). In the midst of all my distractions, I was touched by God&#8217;s desire to forgive me again and again. If I return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-forgiveness","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","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=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8993,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}