{"id":9182,"date":"2024-04-29T22:36:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2024-04-29T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T02:36:55","slug":"experience-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9182","title":{"rendered":"Experience of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rohr50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rohr50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rohr50.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rohr50-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Rohr50-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very little bit of God goes an awfully long way.  When another&#8217;s experience of God isn&#8217;t exactly the way i would describe it, it doesn&#8217;t mean that they haven&#8217;t had an experience of God or that their experience is completely wrong.  We have to remain with Francis&#8217;s prayer:  &#8220;Who are you, God, and who am I?&#8221;  Isn&#8217;t there at least ten percent of that person&#8217;s experience of God with which I can agree?  Can&#8217;t I at least say, &#8220;I wish I could experience God in that way&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>What characterizes anyone who has had just a little bit of God is that they always want more of that experience!  Could it not be that this Hindu, this Sufi, this charismatic, this Jew has, in fact, touched upon the same eternal Mystery that I am seeking?  Can&#8217;t we at least give one another the benefit of the doubt?  I can be somewhat patient with people who think they have the truth.  The problem for me is when they think they have the <em>whole<\/em> truth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/yes_and.html\">Yes, And&#8230;<\/a><\/em>, p. 218<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, April 23, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very little bit of God goes an awfully long way. When another&#8217;s experience of God isn&#8217;t exactly the way i would describe it, it doesn&#8217;t mean that they haven&#8217;t had an experience of God or that their experience is completely wrong. We have to remain with Francis&#8217;s prayer: &#8220;Who are you, God, and who [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","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=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9336,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}