{"id":2848,"date":"2022-10-19T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:32:08","slug":"a-desire-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2848","title":{"rendered":"A Desire to Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, people ask the question, &#8220;Do you have proof that there is a God?&#8221; My answer is yes, but it&#8217;s a personal proof. It&#8217;s not something I can trot out and point at and say, look, see, this is proof of God. It&#8217;s inside me, but is a result of an experiment I did before and frequently repeat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experiment is simple. I desire to believe and let my heart reach out in love for anything receptive. I feel the love coming to me from an unseen source and follow up on that with further faith, prayer, fasting, and study. Other things follow, and I have before me, in my heart and mind, the proof of a loving God that encompasses all of humanity, all of space, all of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, people ask the question, &#8220;Do you have proof that there is a God?&#8221; My answer is yes, but it&#8217;s a personal proof. It&#8217;s not something I can trot out and point at and say, look, see, this is proof of God. It&#8217;s inside me, but is a result of an experiment I did before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}