{"id":4720,"date":"2009-09-03T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2009-09-03T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:14:57","slug":"do-we-transform-our-pain-or-transmit-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/do-we-transform-our-pain-or-transmit-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we transform our pain &#8230; or transmit it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmclaren.net\/archives\/blog\/do-we-transform-our-pain-or-tran.html\">Brian McLaren<\/a> shares some great thoughts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacradicalgrace.org\/\">Fr. Richard Rohr<\/a> ::<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Is your religion helping you to transform your pain? If it does not, it is junk religion.<\/strong> We all have pain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the human situation, we all carry it in a big black bag behind us and it gets heavier as we get older: by betrayals, rejections, disappointments, and wounds that are inflicted along the way.<\/p>\n<p>If we do not find some way to transform our pain, I can tell you with 100% certitude we will transmit it to those around us. We will create tension, negativity, suspicion, and fear wherever we go&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmclaren.net\/archives\/blog\/do-we-transform-our-pain-or-tran.html\">Read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian McLaren shares some great thoughts from Fr. Richard Rohr :: Is your religion helping you to transform your pain? If it does not, it is junk religion. We all have pain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the human situation, we all carry it in a big black bag behind us and it gets heavier as we get older: by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/do-we-transform-our-pain-or-transmit-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do we transform our pain &#8230; or transmit it?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[580,185,2499,1525,1526,2497,2498],"class_list":["post-4720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-brian-mclaren","tag-fears","tag-fr-richard-rohr","tag-hurt","tag-pain","tag-transform","tag-transmit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1e8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}