{"id":9425,"date":"2025-02-13T23:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T03:17:22","slug":"love-is-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9425","title":{"rendered":"Love Is Stronger."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bowler5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bowler5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bowler5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bowler5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bowler5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bowler5-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Bowler5-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[A prayer for when &#8220;the pain is too much&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>I am busy telling you<br \/>\n<em>I will never survive this<\/em><br \/>\nand you tell me the truth.<br \/>\nYou never poison me with the lie that<br \/>\n&#8220;God gives you what you can handle.&#8221;<br \/>\nYou say, instead,<br \/>\nthat you promise,<br \/>\nyou swear,<br \/>\nan oath made in your blood,<br \/>\nthat this suffering will never outlast<br \/>\nthis love.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me again, God,<br \/>\nabout how love goes on forever.<\/p>\n<p>No, truly, tell me again<br \/>\nabout love stronger than even this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Bowler, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/have_a_beautiful_terrible_day.html\">Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!<\/a><\/em>, p. 67<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Snow on branches, South Riding, Virginia, February 12, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[A prayer for when &#8220;the pain is too much&#8221;] I am busy telling you I will never survive this and you tell me the truth. You never poison me with the lie that &#8220;God gives you what you can handle.&#8221; You say, instead, that you promise, you swear, an oath made in your blood, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-god","category-love","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","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=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}