{"id":2498,"date":"2017-07-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2017-07-26T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T21:07:26","slug":"consider-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Consider the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider that the universe\u2014which includes every thought as well as every<em><strong>thing<\/strong><\/em>\u2014 is expanding, as is God, and we get to be a tiny part of it. Do not think that you\u2019re praising God by presuming S\/He\u2019s all finished. Consider\u2014open to the idea&#8212;that an unfinished, open-ended creative process is quite a bit more glorious than a finished creation!<\/p>\n<p>Consider in this mythic image that we puny-human-brains can contemplate that&#160; the universe is a great, multi-dimensional flower, but it\u2019s still in the bud, bulging with Springtime potential. This process will go on for billions of years more, and has gone on for billions of years in the past. Consider that we\u2019re only about half-way to our full potential. I\u2019m just supposing, please understand. It\u2019s more poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider that the universe\u2014which includes every thought as well as everything\u2014 is expanding, as is God, and we get to be a tiny part of it. Do not think that you\u2019re praising God by presuming S\/He\u2019s all finished. Consider\u2014open to the idea&#8212;that an unfinished, open-ended creative process is quite a bit more glorious than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}