{"id":566,"date":"2004-09-10T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/10\/a-unique-and-public-god\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:20:39","slug":"a-unique-and-public-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/10\/a-unique-and-public-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Unique And Public God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sagacious explanation for one of the &#8220;whys&#8221; of blogging:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So I asked my therapist why, and her explanation astounded and scared me more than a little bit. To paraphrase: &#8220;Everyone needs to ask the universe a few questions now and again. Some people call that prayer, some people call that meditation, there are different words and different methods but the goal is the same. We come to places we can&#8217;t figure out on our own, and even our friends and family can&#8217;t really help. So we ask the universe &#8212; the larger power, God, what have you. And I think your Web page, that act, that place, that&#8217;s your larger power. You launch the questions out there and sometimes you get a response, sometimes not. It&#8217;s the act that&#8217;s important. You&#8217;ve just chosen a unique and very public God to question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a title=\"lancearthur.com: Just Write: The Inevitable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lancearthur.com\/archives\/000575.html\">lancearthur.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/impenetrableprose.blogspot.com\/\">Impenetrable Prose and Poesy<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sagacious explanation for one of the &#8220;whys&#8221; of blogging: So I asked my therapist why, and her explanation astounded and scared me more than a little bit. To paraphrase: &#8220;Everyone needs to ask the universe a few questions now and again. Some people call that prayer, some people call that meditation, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12840,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/12840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}