{"id":107675,"date":"2021-12-10T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107675"},"modified":"2021-12-10T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:00:13","slug":"thomas-merton-on-trusting-in-god-on-his-feast-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107675","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Merton on Trusting in God on his Feast Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cBut the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God&#8217;s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<strong>No Man Is an Island<\/strong> (New York: Houghton Mifflin 2002 paper ed. of 1953 original), p.202<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.\u201d\u2014Thomas Merton <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tZb8NotOE6\">pic.twitter.com\/tZb8NotOE6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St. Brigid &amp; St. James Knights of Columbus 16179 (@KC16179) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KC16179\/status\/1469254270381969414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God&#8217;s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107675\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107678,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107675\/revisions\/107678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}