{"id":1130,"date":"2025-12-20T21:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:14:40","slug":"are-you-there-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Are you there God?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m learning how to listen to God. And that sounds a little cliche and neat to me. <br>So I also want to learn how to not sound too cliche to the people around me. <br>It&#8217;s easy to fall into that trap as a Christian I think. <br>Because people usually have questions that don&#8217;t have neat answers, but because we are eager to share our beliefs, when we try, we tend to use language that oversimplifies.<br><br>I used to wonder how people could believe so easily.<br><br>Now I realise that it might not have been that they&#8217;re simple-minded or ignorant. <br><br>It&#8217;s just that you can&#8217;t really answer questions about God in a simple way for it to be satisfying to a non-theist.<br><br>So in 2026, I want to learn how to listen to God, and to learn how to explain God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning how to listen to God. And that sounds a little cliche and neat to me. So I also want to learn how to not sound too cliche to the people around me. It&#8217;s easy to fall into that trap as a Christian I think. Because people usually have questions that don&#8217;t have neat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}