{"id":4175,"date":"2014-04-08T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2014-04-10T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T19:02:43","slug":"i-choose-to-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4175","title":{"rendered":"I choose to trust&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cChoosing to trust that this life matters and we\u2019re all connected and this is all headed somewhere has made my life way, way better.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robbell.com\/newbook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God<\/a>. \u00a0 p125<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve modified this for myself into a prayer, or an affirmation, or an intention.\u00a0 I say it a number of different ways.\u00a0 I seem to have returned (do I dare say this?) to having \u201cdays of grace.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019m so thankful, so thankful.<\/p>\n<p>I choose to trust that I matter, and I\u2019m connected to everybody and we\u2019re all headed somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I choose to trust that I matter to the universe\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Saying that made me realize that I visualize the universe as something much bigger than god, and totally impersonal.\u00a0 I realize that I see god as local, yes he made the sun and the moon and the stars, but most of the stars we see are our neighbors in the Milky Way galaxy.\u00a0 I need to improve my idea of the universe and my idea of god. \u00a0Actually, I have improved my <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">idea<\/span> of the universe and god, but it hasn&#8217;t become experience yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026that I matter to the universe, that the universe needs my shape to be complete, that the universe planted me as a unique seed and waits with delight for the individual who will emerge\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026that we are all connected, that I am connected with everybody, that I am connected with everything\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026that we are all going somewhere, somewhere positive, we are headed for consciousness and compassion, the arc of the universe bends toward peace, justice and sustainability\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4049\" target=\"_blank\">My blog post about Rob Bell<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChoosing to trust that this life matters and we\u2019re all connected and this is all headed somewhere has made my life way, way better.\u201d Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God. \u00a0 p125 I\u2019ve modified this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-present-day","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}