{"id":79172,"date":"2019-03-09T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79172"},"modified":"2019-03-10T06:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T10:20:50","slug":"food-for-thought-from-lewis-smedes-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79172","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought from Lewis Smedes in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What we are is a set of walking contradictions: our inner lives are not partitioned like day and night, with pure light on one side of us and total darkness on the other.  Mostly, our souls are shadowed places; we live at the border where our dark sides block our light and throw a shadow over our interior places. . . . We cannot always tell where our light ends and our shadow begins or where our shadow ends and our darkness begins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Lewis Smedes, <strong>Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don\u2019t Deserve<\/strong> (New York: HarperOne, 2009 ed. of 1993 original), p. 116<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Food for Thought from Lewis Smedes in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lent?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lent<\/a> &#8216;What we are is a set of walking contradictions: our inner lives R not partitioned like day+night, with pure light on 1 side of us+total darkness on the other. Mostly, our souls R shadowed places&#8230;&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTbpmsfzOb\">https:\/\/t.co\/rTbpmsfzOb<\/a> (Amazon) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Gk2CdO5L4\">pic.twitter.com\/8Gk2CdO5L4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1104522871269920769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2019<\/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>What we are is a set of walking contradictions: our inner lives are not partitioned like day and night, with pure light on one side of us and total darkness on the other. Mostly, our souls are shadowed places; we<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79172\">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":[175,92,569,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-lent","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79172","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=79172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79190,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79172\/revisions\/79190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}