{"id":9407,"date":"2025-01-31T23:57:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9407"},"modified":"2025-02-01T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:01:57","slug":"image-bearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9407","title":{"rendered":"Image Bearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Garn2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Garn2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Garn2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Garn2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Art, music, hospitality, gardening, cooking, writing, storytelling, mathematics, programming . . . creating of any kind imitates God!  You fill the earth by doing anything that adds beauty and life and fullness to the world around you, whether you prepare a simple meal, start a business, or create a work of art.  The job of an image bearer is to use your gifts to mimic the passionate, creative work of God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Elizabeth Garn, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/freedom_to_flourish.html\">Freedom to Flourish<\/a><\/em>, p. 58<\/p>\n<p>Photo: &#8220;FIND JOY!!!&#8221; Shadow Scarf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art, music, hospitality, gardening, cooking, writing, storytelling, mathematics, programming . . . creating of any kind imitates God! You fill the earth by doing anything that adds beauty and life and fullness to the world around you, whether you prepare a simple meal, start a business, or create a work of art. The job of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407","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=9407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9410,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9407\/revisions\/9410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}