{"id":77,"date":"2013-09-30T06:08:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T06:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-10-01T05:16:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:16:03","slug":"the-color-of-gods-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"The color of God&#8217;s eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/trinity-coecke-van-aelst-pieter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83 alignleft\" alt=\"trinity-coecke van aelst, pieter\" src=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/trinity-coecke-van-aelst-pieter-254x300.png\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/trinity-coecke-van-aelst-pieter-254x300.png 254w, https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/trinity-coecke-van-aelst-pieter-870x1024.png 870w, https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/trinity-coecke-van-aelst-pieter.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I once had a conversation with a priest-friend long ago about the color of Jesus&#8217; eyes.<\/p>\n<p>We Catholics understand the value of the calisthenics of worship as well as a need for visualization. Steve Jobs, spurned from the womb of a Catholic, showed us with FaceTime that we really do want to know with whom we speak.<\/p>\n<p>So as I search for the face of God when I pray, especially in a quasi Catholic Church with no statues (sort of an oxymoron with too many words), I wander aimlessly, a lot, through the rambles of thought and intercession. Honestly, I feel like I have Catholic Alzheimer&#8217;s because even as a I try desperately to remember the face of those I beseech, I stutter and stammer and feel like the husband who says, &#8220;here, talk to your mother now&#8221; to the kid who calls from college. I&#8217;m certain God is there, don&#8217;t get me wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I could be in a bit of a spiritual-visual crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my fav and the one top &#8216;o mind.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I am beginning anew, again, again. My blog was temporarily disrupted by an ex-husband with far too much time on his hands. So I will consider his wiping out my previous content a blog confession, of sorts. All previous ills are purged, and I am starting fresh, again-again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/trinity-coecke-van-aelst-pieter.png\"><\/a> I once had a conversation with a priest-friend long ago about the color of Jesus&#8217; eyes. We Catholics understand the value of the calisthenics of worship as well as a need for visualization. Steve Jobs, spurned from the womb of a Catholic, showed us with FaceTime that we really do want to know [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catholicbones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}