{"id":1943,"date":"2010-05-21T20:40:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T03:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2010-05-21T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:41:00","slug":"the-kingdom-of-god-from-grace-not-wit-and-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/21\/the-kingdom-of-god-from-grace-not-wit-and-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom of God from grace, not wit and skill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;noble power&#8221; of a free will partakes of something even greater  than hope, and that is grace. The kingdom of God within us in not  something we gain through training, wit, or skill. It comes to use as  pure gift, and we are free now, as in Dante&#8217;s time, to nourish it, curb  it,or ignore it. Given the power and resilience of this grace, it is a  terrible irony that the despairing so often feel rejected by a distant  and uncaring God. When we are convinced that we are beyond the reach of  grace, acedia has done its work.<\/p>\n<p>John Climacus speaks of it as &#8220;a voice claiming that God has no mercy  and no love for [us].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Kathleen Norris, Acedia &amp; Me, p.205<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;noble power&#8221; of a free will partakes of something even greater than hope, and that is grace. The kingdom of God within us in not something we gain through training, wit, or skill. It comes to use as pure gift, and we are free now, as in Dante&#8217;s time, to nourish it, curb it,or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/05\/21\/the-kingdom-of-god-from-grace-not-wit-and-skill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Kingdom of God from grace, not wit and skill&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}