{"id":9326,"date":"2024-04-04T23:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T03:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2024-04-04T23:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T03:04:56","slug":"made-to-be-gods-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9326","title":{"rendered":"Made to Be God&#8217;s Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Garn1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Garn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Garn1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Garn1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever felt the pull between being the woman you are and being the woman you think you&#8217;re supposed to be, if you&#8217;ve ever believed that the heart of God&#8217;s plan for us was doing more and trying harder &#8212; then this book is for you.  I spent years and years tangled in the idea that I needed to measure up to the women around me, that I needed to fit in and look the part and check the boxes all to somehow prove that I loved God enough, that I was godly enough.  I didn&#8217;t understand who I was created to be or how I was to live that out, and, as a result, I was left sinking in shame instead.  But that is not God&#8217;s plan for us.  His plan is not for shame but for freedom, not for comparison but for flourishing; his plan is that we be his image.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Elizabeth Garn, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/freedom_to_flourish.html\">Freedom to Flourish<\/a><\/em>, p. 13<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bull Run Regional Park, Virginia, March 29, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever felt the pull between being the woman you are and being the woman you think you&#8217;re supposed to be, if you&#8217;ve ever believed that the heart of God&#8217;s plan for us was doing more and trying harder &#8212; then this book is for you. I spent years and years tangled in 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":[54,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calling","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","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=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9328,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}