{"id":10676,"date":"2012-11-13T05:27:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T10:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2012-11-13T13:16:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:16:47","slug":"we-become-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/we-become-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"We *become* prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\u00a0I&#8217;m so excited to offer my digital book &#8220;Life As Prayer&#8221; for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">free<\/span><\/strong><\/span> AGAIN today.<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My list of (4) books for kindle\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;field-author=Lisa%20Col\u00f3n%20DeLay&amp;search-alias=digital-text&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;buffer_share=741de\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>It&#8217;s our sufferings, the darkness, the doubt&#8230;that happens <em>not<\/em> apart from God. Slowly through it he makes us into a living prayer. That is what the book is about: Practicing the Presence of God in each moment. Transformation. I dearly hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Is not existence wild in such a way that we can be continually feel surprised. How foreign and out of sorts it can be, and yet why?&#8230;This world is all we&#8217;ve ever known. Life, to me, always feels like it doesn&#8217;t quite fit. Through the joy and sorrow the triumph and pain we continue <em>becoming<\/em>. It&#8217;s as if we are creatures within God&#8217;s lucid dream.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Belonging isn&#8217;t the absence of longing&#8230;it&#8217;s longing together<\/em><\/h4>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0In <em>belonging<\/em> our longings don&#8217;t ebb, rather we long <em>together<\/em>. We <em>be<\/em>\u00a0and we <em>long<\/em>\u2013ever still.<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we creatures within God&#8217;s lucid dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[6067,382,510,668,21,1347,1472,1925,45,2046,6059,2249,6066,60,3195],"class_list":["post-10676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-becoming","tag-belonging","tag-brother-lawrence","tag-christian-practices","tag-dreams","tag-free","tag-god","tag-kindle","tag-life-as-prayer","tag-lisa","tag-lucid","tag-monk","tag-practicing-the-presence","tag-prayer","tag-spiritual-formation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10676"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10684,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions\/10684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}