{"id":13395,"date":"2012-11-22T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2012-11-22T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:48:11","slug":"today-i-am-thankful-that-i-can-be-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/11\/today-i-am-thankful-that-i-can-be-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I am thankful that I can be thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of a post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/thanksgiving-eucharist\/\">I wrote ten years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today I am thankful that I can be\u00a0thankful.<\/p>\n<p>On the Easter Vigil where I came into Holy Mother Church I\u00a0reflected on the fact that I had literally spent forty years in the wilderness.\u00a0I had been chasing after false gods and idols and was totally oblivious to the\u00a0miracles that God had created around me. I would have fit in easily with the\u00a0hardheaded Israelites, ignoring every blessing and focusing on even the most\u00a0trite inconvenience. I was suffering from spiritual autism, locked into only the\u00a0material world and undiscerning of the spiritual world around me. I did not\u00a0realize that I was afflicted with this eternal life threatening illness, nor did\u00a0those around me inform me of my malady. After reading Franks Sheed&#8217;s awesome\u00a0book\u00a0Theology and Sanity I came to see my insanity for what it was.\u00a0As an atheist the concept of thanksgiving was alien to me, I knew I should be\u00a0thankful but to whom was I to be thankful to? It is difficult to give thanks to\u00a0random eddies of atoms coalescencing into a cell. Oh chaos I thank you for we\u00a0are wonderfully made just doesn&#8217;t sound right. How can you be thankful for your\u00a0flukeness, your undesigned accidental existence. Luckily, as most atheists I did\u00a0not dwell too much on the actual meaning of these unbeliefs. Thank you God for\u00a0bringing me into the promised land of your Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of a post I wrote ten years ago. Today I am thankful that I can be\u00a0thankful. On the Easter Vigil where I came into Holy Mother Church&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13399,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}