{"id":163,"date":"2018-10-15T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=163"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:49:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:49:32","slug":"not-ours-to-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"not ours to sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With all its dimensions, in all its searching and yearning, life holds but one truth and that\u2019s Love. Love which shone through the eternal presence of the Lord into the emptiness of what would be. Love traveled faster than light, faster than thought. Unlike life, Love has no facets. Love is whole and complete. Viewed from any angle, from any vantage point it is found perfect, without form or scope. As in all creation, Faith is the gift and Love is the answer. Know that we cannot sacrifice, we can pour out of our self, self-giving Love; as God poured out Himself in the dawn of His command, \u2018let there be light\u2019. Jesus was and is our sacrifice. Did He not say, \u2018I am going where you cannot come\u2019? We cannot enter into His sacrifice, nor would we want to; too great is He. We are His witnesses and in His image and likeness we can Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With all its dimensions, in all its searching and yearning, life holds but one truth and that\u2019s Love. Love which shone through the eternal presence of the Lord into the emptiness of what would be. Love traveled faster than light, faster than thought. Unlike life, Love has no facets. Love is whole and complete. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14,29],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","tag-catholic-faith","tag-love","tag-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}