{"id":142235,"date":"2025-12-29T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142235"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:01:16","slug":"bono-on-christmas-it-brings-me-to-my-knees-literally-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142235","title":{"rendered":"Bono on Christmas\u2013\u2018it brings me to my knees, literally\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018The idea that there\u2019s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in %$#$ and straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally. To me, as a poet, I am just in awe of that. It makes some sort of poetic sense. It\u2019s the thing that makes me a believer, although it didn\u2019t dawn on me for many years.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013Bono as quoted in Cathleen Falsani, <b>The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People<\/b> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), p.10<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;He is the reflection of God&#39;s glory and the exact imprint of God\u2019s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word&#39;<br>Hebrews 1: 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RsLwFLF6gq\">pic.twitter.com\/RsLwFLF6gq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wabbey\/status\/2003939630698123432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The idea that there\u2019s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142235\">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":[575,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-christology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142235","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=142235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142256,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142235\/revisions\/142256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}