{"id":2423,"date":"2009-12-07T02:58:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T07:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2009-12-07T02:58:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T07:58:38","slug":"repostgod-and-real-life-paulo-coelhos-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/repostgod-and-real-life-paulo-coelhos-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::God and real life \u00ab Paulo Coelho\u2019s Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Christian tradition<br \/>\nA protestant priest, having started a family, no longer had any peace for his prayers. One night, when he knelt down, he was disturbed by the children in the living room.\u201cHave the children keep quiet!\u201d he shouted.His startled wife obeyed. Thereafter, whenever the priest came home, they all maintained silence during prayers. But he realized that God was no longer listening.One night, during his prayers, he asked the Lord<strong>: \u201cwhat is going on?<\/strong> <strong>I have the necessary peace, and I cannot pray!\u201dAn angel replied: \u201cHe hears words, but no longer hears the laughter. He notices the devotion, but can no longer see the joy.\u201d<\/strong>The priest stood and shouted once again to his wife: \u201cLet the children play! They are part of praying!\u201dAnd his words were heard by God once again.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/paulocoelhoblog.com\/2009\/12\/06\/god-and-real-life\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PauloCoelhosBlog+%28Paulo+Coelho%27s+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">God and real life \u00ab Paulo Coelho\u2019s Blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is easy to understand the apprehension towards religion of a lot of people, It is in a sense because religion boxes what is intuitively boundless. FIND the JOY, FIND the LAUGHTER!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian tradition A protestant priest, having started a family, no longer had any peace for his prayers. One night, when he knelt down, he was disturbed by the children in the living room.\u201cHave the children keep quiet!\u201d he shouted.His startled wife obeyed. Thereafter, whenever the priest came home, they all maintained silence during prayers. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/repostgod-and-real-life-paulo-coelhos-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::God and real life \u00ab Paulo Coelho\u2019s Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angol","category-best-read","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}