{"id":16177,"date":"2025-03-17T20:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/?p=16177"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:52:17","slug":"deeper-and-deeper-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/03\/17\/deeper-and-deeper-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeper and deeper here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16178\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/03\/17\/deeper-and-deeper-here\/cloud_appreciation_coolhaven\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud_appreciation_coolhaven.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;motorola edge 20&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1741975103&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.88&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000673123&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"cloud_appreciation_coolhaven\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud_appreciation_coolhaven.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud_appreciation_coolhaven.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud_appreciation_coolhaven.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud_appreciation_coolhaven.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud_appreciation_coolhaven.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>* <em>Adsum<\/em> *<\/h3>\n<div style=\"line-height:2;border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;\">What if the miracle of living this life is not that we all get our way but that we sink our roots and souls and bodies <strong style=\"background-color:#FFFFE0;\">deeper and deeper<\/strong> into the place God has put us, for just the time God has put us there? This place is not even a physical place \u2013 remember, there is no moral good or evil to leaving or staying \u2013 but simply the space we inhabit today. <em style=\"background-color:#FFFFE0;\">Adsum<\/em>. What if the miracle of life is that we move through belief and unbelief, doubt and faith, joy and sorrow, anger and grief, truth and faith, being as wholly ourselves as we can be in that moment. Is being here, wherever here is, wholeness? <\/p>\n<p>I think it is.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Understory-Invitation-Rootedness-Resilience-Forest\/dp\/1587435705\" target=\"_blank\">The Understory<\/a><\/em> by <strong>Lore Ferguson Wilbert<\/strong>, p. 205<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n* <em>Adsum<\/em> is Latin for &#8220;I am here&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>From the blog<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2023\/07\/14\/bloom-where-youre-planted\/\">Bloom where you\u2019re planted<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2022\/04\/13\/continually-ever-present\/\">Continually ever-present<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2021\/02\/19\/yield-as-sacrifice\/\">Yield as sacrifice<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Adsum * What if the miracle of living this life is not that we all get our way but that we sink our roots and souls and bodies deeper and deeper into the place God has put us, for just the time God has put us there? This place is not even a physical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/03\/17\/deeper-and-deeper-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deeper and deeper here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[127,36],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-16177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","category-word-study","tag-deeper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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