{"id":38036,"date":"2014-07-02T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=38036"},"modified":"2014-06-29T16:34:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T23:34:47","slug":"he-leadeth-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/he-leadeth-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words On Wednesday: He Leadeth Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ciszek_prison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38037\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ciszek_prison.jpg\" alt=\"ciszek_prison\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ciszek_prison.jpg 550w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ciszek_prison-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\"><em><span style=\"color: #141823\">&#8220;There remains deep down in each of us a little nagging doubt, a little knot of fear which we refuse to face or admit even to ourselves, that says, &#8216;suppose it isn&#8217;t so.&#8217; We are afraid to abandon ourselves totally into God&#8217;s hand for fear he will not catch us as we fall. It is the ultimate criterion, the final test of all faith and all belief, and it is present in\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\" style=\"color: #141823\">each of us, lurking unvoiced in a closet of our mind we are afraid to open. It is not really a question of trust in God at all, for we want very much to trust him; it is really a question of our ultimate belief in his existence and his providence, and it demands the purest act of faith.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #141823\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rev-james-martin-sj\/canonization-walter-ciszek_b_1375661.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fr. Walter Ciszek<\/a>, He Leadeth Me<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There remains deep down in each of us a little nagging doubt, a little knot of fear which we refuse to face or admit even to ourselves, that says, &#8216;suppose it isn&#8217;t so.&#8217; We are afraid to abandon ourselves totally into God&#8217;s hand for fear he will not catch us as we fall. It is the ultimate criterion, the final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[3259,2676,2677,161],"class_list":["post-38036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-faith","tag-fr-walter-ciszek","tag-he-leadeth-me","tag-trust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38639,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38036\/revisions\/38639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}