{"id":9377,"date":"2025-01-12T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2025-01-12T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T04:02:45","slug":"start-with-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9377","title":{"rendered":"Start with Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Beck1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Beck1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Beck1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Beck1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Beck1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Beck1-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Beck1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Paul says, &#8220;He has not left himself without witness.&#8221;  God&#8217;s voice is heard in the rain and in the harvest.  God is close where there is good food and the laughter of friends.  God has been with you this entire time, declares Paul, &#8220;filling your hearts with joy.&#8221;  Start with joy if you&#8217;re looking for enchantment.  Let gladness be your guide to the gateway of heaven.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Beck, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/hunting_magic_eels.html\">Hunting Magic Eels<\/a><\/em>, p. 90<\/p>\n<p>Photo:  South Riding, Virginia, January 11, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Paul says, &#8220;He has not left himself without witness.&#8221; God&#8217;s voice is heard in the rain and in the harvest. God is close where there is good food and the laughter of friends. God has been with you this entire time, declares Paul, &#8220;filling your hearts with joy.&#8221; Start with joy if you&#8217;re looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-god","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9379,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions\/9379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}