{"id":98,"date":"2015-08-10T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2015-07-26T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T19:40:01","slug":"are-you-in-need-of-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/are-you-in-need-of-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you in need of fixing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Are you a human in need of fixing? Do you think that you\u2019re fine \u201cjust the way God made you\u201d? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Well, if you\u2019re a Christian, you probably need to fix at least some things in your life, because we aren\u2019t all perfect, and we won\u2019t be, at least not until getting to Heaven. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">And as we all know, just like parents raising children, God is raising us. And it isn\u2019t easy. While little kids fill diapers, break objects, and throw food (or so I imagine, being childless), so too do we sin, break away from God\u2019s grace, and basically cover ourselves in manure every time we sin. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">But, beyond that, there are three reasons our souls need purification, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2015\/06\/fix-me-jesus-fix-me\/\">Msgr Pope provides some thoughts and reflections on those reasons<\/a>, especially as we begin to make spiritual progress. He draws especially from Fr Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, the great 20<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\"> Century Dominican theologian, who himself draws from spiritual masters and St Thomas Aquinas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, serif;\">Give Msgr Pope\u2019s column a read!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a human in need of fixing? Do you think that you\u2019re fine \u201cjust the way God made you\u201d? Well, if you\u2019re a Christian, you probably need to fix at least some things in your life, because we aren\u2019t all perfect, and we won\u2019t be, at least not until getting to Heaven. And as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic","category-dominican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}