{"id":70,"date":"2008-02-03T22:32:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/03\/a-lement-on-passing-over-the-heart\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:14:49","slug":"a-lement-on-passing-over-the-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/03\/a-lement-on-passing-over-the-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A lament on passing over the heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We ask how much a man has done, but from what degree of virtuous principle he acts, is not so studiously considered.We inquire whether he be courageous, rich, handsom, skillful, a good writer, a good singer, or a good laborer; but how poor he is in spirit, how patient and meek, how devout and spiritual, is seldom spoken of.<\/p>\n<p>-Thomas A Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book III, Chapter 31<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I often ask this myself. Both of men and peers in church and in the world. I have admired the courageous. I have certainly been jealous of the rich. Cynical of the handsome, especially when riches seem to come to them as a result. I know I have some fine skills. I wish I had others too. I could be a good writer if I wasn&#8217;t so slow. I could have been a good singer had I invested more time into it. My labors are a mixed bag: some good examples, some lousy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man looks on the outside, but the Lord looks on the heart.&#8221; Too bad that outside success still holds such social capital, even within the church community. Even largely in my own heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ask how much a man has done, but from what degree of virtuous principle he acts, is not so studiously considered.We inquire whether he be courageous, rich, handsom, skillful, a good writer, a good singer, or a good laborer; but how poor he is in spirit, how patient and meek, how devout and spiritual, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/03\/a-lement-on-passing-over-the-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A lament on passing over the heart&#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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology-and-class"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}