{"id":15,"date":"2004-11-29T23:50:49","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T06:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-11-30T02:30:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T09:30:42","slug":"fickleness-and-indecision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/29\/fickleness-and-indecision\/","title":{"rendered":"Fickleness and indecision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/081120099X\/manalangcom-20?dev-t=D2B1IIRG931JN5%26camp=2025%26link_code=sp1\" title=\"New Seeds of Contemplation\"><img src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/081120099X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"New Seeds of Contemplation\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I read a passage from Thomas Merton at Barnes &#038; Noble this evening that hit me right between the eyes. Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t find the quote online, except for this small excerpt. Maybe I&#8217;ll post it after I eventually buy the book.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fickleness and indecision are signs of self-love. If you can never make up your mind what God wills for you, but are always veering from one opinion to another \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 from one method to another, it may be an indication that you are trying to get around God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s will and do your own with a quiet conscience. So keep still, and let God do some work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the section included a couple examples that hit home&#8211;like starting another book before finishing the one you&#8217;re on, and starting new life pursuits every other day on every random whim. &#8220;Bilateral incongruence&#8221; is a related term I&#8217;ve come across (in the context of NLP). Also, this passage touched on what it means to fully give one&#8217;s life to God.<\/p>\n<p>There. I placed a hold on it through Seattle Public Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a passage from Thomas Merton at Barnes &#038; Noble this evening that hit me right between the eyes. Unfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t find the quote online, except for this small excerpt. Maybe I&#8217;ll post it after I eventually buy the book. Fickleness and indecision are signs of self-love. If you can never make up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}