{"id":9233,"date":"2026-11-06T23:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2026-11-06T23:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T03:15:18","slug":"god-with-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"God With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rohr71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rohr71.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rohr71.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rohr71-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rohr71-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rohr71-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rohr71-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The enfleshment and suffering of Jesus is saying that God is not apart from the trials of humanity.  God is not aloof.  God is not a mere spectator.  God is not merely tolerating or even healing all human suffering.  Rather, God is participating with us, in <em>all<\/em> of it &#8212; the good and the bad!  I wonder if people can avoid becoming sad and cynical about the tragedies of history if they do not know this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/yes_and.html\">Yes . . . And: Daily Meditations<\/a><\/em>, p. 332<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 18, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The enfleshment and suffering of Jesus is saying that God is not apart from the trials of humanity. God is not aloof. God is not a mere spectator. God is not merely tolerating or even healing all human suffering. Rather, God is participating with us, in all of it &#8212; the good and the bad! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-jesus","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","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=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10813,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/revisions\/10813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}