{"id":9304,"date":"2024-02-04T23:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T03:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2024-02-04T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T03:34:36","slug":"gifts-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9304","title":{"rendered":"Gifts of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LEngle10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LEngle10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LEngle10.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LEngle10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LEngle10-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LEngle10-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/LEngle10-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified.  We are suspicious of grace.  We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.<\/p>\n<p>But a child rejoices in presents!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, quoted in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/glimpsesofgrace.html\">Glimpses of Grace<\/a><\/em>, collected by Carole F. Chase<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  South Riding, Virginia, January 20, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve them; we must be qualified. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304","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=9304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9306,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9304\/revisions\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}