{"id":27221,"date":"2012-10-10T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/god-keeps-us-waiting-because\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T20:48:07","slug":"god-keeps-us-waiting-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/god-keeps-us-waiting-because\/","title":{"rendered":"God keeps us waiting because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:documentproperties>\n<o:template>Normal<\/o:template>\n<o:revision>0<\/o:revision>\n<o:totaltime>0<\/o:totaltime>\n<o:pages>1<\/o:pages>\n<o:words>113<\/o:words>\n<o:characters>649<\/o:characters>\n<o:company>Liturgy Traing Publ.<\/o:company>\n<o:lines>5<\/o:lines>\n<o:paragraphs>1<\/o:paragraphs>\n<o:characterswithspaces>797<\/o:characterswithspaces>\n<o:version>10.260<\/o:version>\n<\/o:documentproperties>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:worddocument>\n<w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom>\n<w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin><\/w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin>\n<\/w:worddocument>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">&#8220;Why does God, who is love, keep us waiting?<br \/>\nBecause He is love, and seeks love. Love that does not know how to wait is not<br \/>\nlove. To love is to give ourselves. No only for a fraction of a lifetime, nor<br \/>\nwith a part of its strength: love is, and seeks, the total gift of self&#8230;.<br \/>\n<b>Delays in union [with God] are not time lost; far from it<\/b>. God sees very far<br \/>\nahead; <u>He makes wonderful use of what we call evil<\/u> &#8211; <u>of our<\/u> <u>wanderings, our<br \/>\nhesitations and detours<\/u>, although He does not love them or want them. It is at these<br \/>\nmoments, above all, that <b>we need confidence and perseverance<\/b>. The prayer,<br \/>\nwhether for ourselves or for others, that is not discouraged, which persists<br \/>\nand besieges Heaven, touches God&#8217;s heart; and that is why He tells us to<br \/>\npersevere.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Dom Augustin Guillerand, O. Cart.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">A French Carthusian monk (1877-1945) of the Charterhouse of La Valsainte, Switzerland<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why does God, who is love, keep us waiting? Because He is love, and seeks love. Love that does not know how to wait is not love. To love is to give ourselves. No only for a fraction of a lifetime, nor with a part of its strength: love is, and seeks, the total gift &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/god-keeps-us-waiting-because\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God keeps us waiting because&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2873,1804,3014,3015,1791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}