{"id":9385,"date":"2025-01-18T22:40:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T02:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9385"},"modified":"2025-01-18T22:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T02:40:49","slug":"blessed-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9385","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bowler4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bowler4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bowler4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bowler4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bowler4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bowler4-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bowler4-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God, erase my humiliation<br \/>\nabout being stubbornly finite.<br \/>\nRemind me again<br \/>\nhow all these limitations<br \/>\ncan still be called <em>blessed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Blessed are my bleary eyes<br \/>\nand long naps.<br \/>\nBlessed are my scattered thoughts<br \/>\nand unfinished checklists.<\/p>\n<p>May my mortality feel as beloved<br \/>\nas my efforts.<br \/>\nBecause in all things,<br \/>\nI long to be yours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie, <em>The Lives We Actually Have<\/em>, p. 25<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, January 18, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God, erase my humiliation about being stubbornly finite. Remind me again how all these limitations can still be called blessed. Blessed are my bleary eyes and long naps. Blessed are my scattered thoughts and unfinished checklists. May my mortality feel as beloved as my efforts. Because in all things, I long to be yours. &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessing","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385","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=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9388,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}