{"id":599,"date":"2009-03-08T23:11:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T23:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=599"},"modified":"2009-03-16T04:49:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:49:45","slug":"ever-feel-rotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/03\/08\/ever-feel-rotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever feel rotten?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now we still have the desire to do the right thing, for we are created in God&#8217;s image and inwardly seek the things of God. <strong>But that godly desire is trapped and imprisoned with a wall of disordered flesh, emotions, and destructive thought processes<\/strong>. The spirit is no longer our primary driving force. It is covered over or forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Our bodies and souls are also changed by the Fall. The soul is disjointed and confused within itself. The body loses its original God-given beauty and innocence, a loss we try to cover over with often futile efforts to cosmetically enhance our appearance. In short, Adam and Eve&#8217;s banishment from the paradise of the Garden of Eden isn&#8217;t a long-ago fairy tale. It&#8217;s an existential, cosmic reality, and it&#8217;s something we experience in the here and now of everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>-John Michael Talbot, The Music of Creation, p.40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now we still have the desire to do the right thing, for we are created in God&#8217;s image and inwardly seek the things of God. But that godly desire is trapped and imprisoned with a wall of disordered flesh, emotions, and destructive thought processes. The spirit is no longer our primary driving force. It is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2009\/03\/08\/ever-feel-rotten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ever feel rotten?&#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":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}