{"id":9688,"date":"2026-03-16T22:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9688"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:31:25","slug":"be-on-the-lookout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9688","title":{"rendered":"Be on the Lookout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Boyle56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Boyle56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Boyle56.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Boyle56-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Boyle56-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Boyle56-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Boyle56-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend Mirabai Starr, a mystic who writes about mystics, says, &#8220;<strong>Once you know the God of Love, you fire all the other gods.<\/strong>&#8221;  It is always hard for us to believe in the nonjudgmental, loving, and merciful God, and yet, that is the God we <em>actually<\/em> have.<\/p>\n<p>Joel, a man who did considerable time in prison, told me, &#8220;When my toes hit the floor in the morning, I&#8217;m on the lookout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the lookout for what?&#8221; I asked him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For God,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;God is always leaving me hints.  He&#8217;s dropping me anonymous tips all the time.&#8221;  This is the God of love trying to break through.  This God will not be outdone in extravagant tenderness.  Leaving hints as &#8220;deep as the nether world or high as the sky,&#8221; as the prophet Isaiah reminds us.  We get to choose: <strong>the god who judges and is embarrassed, or the One who notices and delights in us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/forgive_everyone_everything.html\">Forgive Everyone Everything<\/a><\/em>, p. 23<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Great blue heron at lake side, March 1, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Mirabai Starr, a mystic who writes about mystics, says, &#8220;Once you know the God of Love, you fire all the other gods.&#8221; It is always hard for us to believe in the nonjudgmental, loving, and merciful God, and yet, that is the God we actually have. Joel, a man who did considerable time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delight","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688","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=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9690,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions\/9690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}