{"id":79325,"date":"2019-03-15T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79325"},"modified":"2019-03-17T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T19:06:22","slug":"food-for-thought-from-frederick-buechner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79325","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought from Frederick Buechner"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The grace of God means something like this. Here is your life. You might never have been, but you <i>are<\/i> because the party wouldn&#8217;t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don&#8217;t be\u202fafraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It&#8217;s for\u202fyou I created the universe. I love you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Frederick Buechner&#8211;<b>Wishful Thinking: A Seeker&#8217;s ABC<\/b> (New York: Harper Collins, 1993), p. 39<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p><i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIt is not that you feel love and then say, \u2018I love you\u2019, but that until you say \u2018I love you\u2019, you have not fully loved because it is the essence of love to speak itself\u2014to make itself heard and to make itself hearers.\u201d \u2014 Frederick Buechner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamfujimura?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@iamfujimura<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8YOc3YIr0D\">pic.twitter.com\/8YOc3YIr0D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Taylor (@wdavidotaylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdavidotaylor\/status\/931192894752546816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>\n<\/i><i><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grace of God means something like this. Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn&#8217;t have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don&#8217;t<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79325\">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":[92,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79325","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=79325"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85812,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79325\/revisions\/85812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}