{"id":9462,"date":"2025-03-22T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T01:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2025-03-22T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T01:38:15","slug":"if-god-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9462","title":{"rendered":"If God Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr54.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr54.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr54.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr54-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr54-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr54-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr54-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We sing, Holy, Holy, Holy.  We say, &#8220;Yes, yes, it is good.&#8221;  We are energized by what we see.  And our private darkness is no great surprise.  Who cares?  Who cares where I am on the ladder of perfection?  That&#8217;s an egocentric question.  &#8220;Where am I?&#8221;  &#8220;How holy am I?&#8221; become silly questions.  If God can receive me, who am I to not receive myself &#8211; warts and all?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/everything_belongs.html\">Everything Belongs<\/a><\/em>, p. 105<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Buds and blue sky, South Riding, Virginia, March 21, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sing, Holy, Holy, Holy. We say, &#8220;Yes, yes, it is good.&#8221; We are energized by what we see. And our private darkness is no great surprise. Who cares? Who cares where I am on the ladder of perfection? That&#8217;s an egocentric question. &#8220;Where am I?&#8221; &#8220;How holy am I?&#8221; become silly questions. If God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,13,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-god","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462","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=9462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9465,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions\/9465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}