{"id":165,"date":"2021-09-18T22:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=165"},"modified":"2021-09-19T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T13:20:26","slug":"further-up-and-further-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Further Up and Further In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My last post, <a href=\"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=159\">&#8220;Asking for Orbit&#8221;<\/a> dealt with &#8220;It&#8217;s about God, not about us&#8221; as it applies in my highly-prone-to-implode life. This one is my (much longer) poem with me wrestling out some of how that sentiment might play out when the God it&#8217;s &#8220;about&#8221; is the God revealed in Jesus Christ, one who is in his very essence <em>agape<\/em> love.<br><br>(My theological &#8220;Spidey-senses&#8221; go off sometimes at some of the places or ways we take the concept of God as supreme, the source, the end, the only one worthy, etc. )<br><br>Hope you enjoy it. As always, your comments or thoughts are welcomed &#8230; it&#8217;d be fun to grab coffee and talk more about any of this!<br><br>Oh and P.S. if you&#8217;re on a mobile you may only see the left column &#8230; make sure you read the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/poem-FURTHER-UP-AND-FURTHER-IN-1.png?resize=799%2C765\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172\" width=\"799\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/poem-FURTHER-UP-AND-FURTHER-IN-1.png?w=773&amp;ssl=1 773w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/poem-FURTHER-UP-AND-FURTHER-IN-1.png?resize=300%2C288&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/poem-FURTHER-UP-AND-FURTHER-IN-1.png?resize=768%2C736&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post, &#8220;Asking for Orbit&#8221; dealt with &#8220;It&#8217;s about God, not about us&#8221; as it applies in my highly-prone-to-implode life. This one is my (much longer) poem with me wrestling out some of how that sentiment might play out when the God it&#8217;s &#8220;about&#8221; is the God revealed in Jesus Christ, one who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}