{"id":5957,"date":"2011-01-19T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2010-12-15T08:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T12:22:02","slug":"simple-as-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/01\/19\/simple-as-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple As Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2010\/11\/log_juntossomosmais.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5959\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2010\/11\/log_juntossomosmais.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"en\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Without  defense, without beauty, clay dry, lifeless, the dryness takes over,  nothing to plant, because there is no reaction, dead and mutilated  earthenware, or even wet clay, but nothing more than clay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nothing &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We must assume this condition of clay! <\/span><span>We are clay, simple clay! <\/span><span>But we have a potter who wants to take care, kneading, to transform and to shape this clay<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s all a transformation process that is painful and time consuming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The potter with his virtues can see what our eyes can not see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is how God manifests himself to each of us with his infinite love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We  often are this filthy mud of sin, pride and arrogance, but  God in his goodness and patience never gives up loving us and looking at us  and He sees the most beautiful creatures, even when we do not see this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He  has the ability to look us in the condition we find ourselves in and  see the &#8220;perfect perfection&#8221; of his love, the most beautiful work of art  created by His hands, and there we rejoice in this spectacle of creation  in which He believes <\/span><span>entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And if He believes, you cannot doubt!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cleto e Maria<\/p>\n<p>translated from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/juntossomosmais\/?p=3656\">Portuguese<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without defense, without beauty, clay dry, lifeless, the dryness takes over, nothing to plant, because there is no reaction, dead and mutilated earthenware, or even wet clay, but nothing more than clay. Nothing &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230; &#8230;. We&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25555,25556],"tags":[6351,16034,17447,33184,18255,17154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}