{"id":9123,"date":"2022-05-30T22:25:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T02:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2022-05-30T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T02:28:39","slug":"gods-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9123","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Favorite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rohr-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rohr-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rohr-31.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rohr-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rohr-31-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rohr-31-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rohr-31-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human love is largely determined by the attractiveness of the object.  When someone is nice, good, not high-maintenance, physically attractive, important, or has a nice personality, we find it much easier to give ourselves to them or to &#8220;like&#8221; them.  That&#8217;s just the way we humans operate.  We naturally live in what I call the meritocracy of <em>quid pro quo<\/em>.  We must be taught by God and grace how to live in an <em>economy of grace<\/em>.  Divine love is a love that operates in a quite unqualified way, without making distinctions between persons and seemingly without such a thing as personal preference.  Anyone who receives divine love feels like God&#8217;s favorite in that moment!  We don&#8217;t even have the capacity to imagine such a notion until we have received it!  Divine love is <em>received by surrender instead of any performance principle whatsoever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em>Yes, And&#8230;<\/em>, p. 78<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, May 30, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human love is largely determined by the attractiveness of the object. When someone is nice, good, not high-maintenance, physically attractive, important, or has a nice personality, we find it much easier to give ourselves to them or to &#8220;like&#8221; them. That&#8217;s just the way we humans operate. We naturally live in what I call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","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=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}