{"id":17833,"date":"2023-12-08T21:58:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T02:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=17833"},"modified":"2023-12-08T21:58:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T02:58:40","slug":"all-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2023\/12\/all-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"All falling &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was reminded of this quote the other day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cHe wanted to sink so low that in the future all falling would be a falling into him, and every streamlet of bitterness and despair would henceforth run down into his lowermost abyss.\u201d Hans Urs Von Balthasar \u201dThe Heart of the World&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The quote \u201call falling would be a falling into him\u201d has been ringing through my head over the last two days. Sometimes a poetic restatement of something you already knew, at least intellectually, hits you at another level. I can recite every day \u201cJesus I trust in you\u201d and still need to be reminded of what that trust entails and my need for mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cfor the righteous falls seven times and rises again\u201d (Pr 24:16)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not with our own power that we rise again; it is all sheer grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of this quote the other day. \u201cHe wanted to sink so low that in the future all falling would be a falling into him, and every streamlet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833","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=17833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17834,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions\/17834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}