{"id":17996,"date":"2017-06-07T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=17996"},"modified":"2017-06-06T23:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:52:53","slug":"degrees-passionate-charity-june-7-2017-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/degrees-passionate-charity-june-7-2017-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrees of Passionate Charity, June 7, 2017 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17998\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17998\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-Masters-Books-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-Masters-Books-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-Masters-Books-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-Masters-Books.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2015-Masters-Books-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Master&#8217;s Books<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My latest course is in the History of Christian Spirituality. I studied about Richard of St. Victor&#8217;s four degrees of passionate charity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Richard of St. Victor\u2019s four degrees of passionate charity:<br \/>\n1st you desire God<br \/>\n2nd you search out God<br \/>\n3rd You want to be in God<br \/>\n4th You want to live as God does<br \/>\nRichard\u2019s analysis tells us that our soul desires God, we want to believe there is a God. Then we want to find him. Once we find God we fall in love with God and want nothing else. As we merge with God the only thing we want more than to sit in God\u2019s love is to transform our lives to be God\u2019s love to the world. <\/p>\n<p>I have lived these four degrees. I have questioned God in my teens. I have searched him out. In my Master\u2019s program I have tried to understand God with intellect. I have then desired to merge into God and be a part of God. Now, I desire, like in many times over my life, I want to reflect God\u2019s life with my own life (to be God like). I think these stages are very realistic and relative to our culture today. People want God but when they search in the wrong places they find lots of gods that never fill that desire. If they don\u2019t reach God they can\u2019t fall in love with God.<br \/>\nAre you searching for God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desire for God&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1865],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}