{"id":858,"date":"2020-09-12T01:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?page_id=858"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:12:20","slug":"my-mama","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?page_id=858","title":{"rendered":"My Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">Thank you Mama for&nbsp;\nmaking me feel\nready to conquer\nanything. . .and for\nwatching over me\nuntil I really could.\n-D.S.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In my earliest pages, God was found wherever my mama happened to be.<\/strong>\u00a0When I had to start leaving her, my days grew dark and uncertain for a time. Then, in the months after running away from home, I was comforted and guided by her words echoing in my soul and by the counsel of Holy Spirit-mother breathing life and rekindling the fire. In university,\u00a0<em>alma mater\u00a0<\/em>(latin for academic mother) taught and guided me. In graduate school and seminary I discovered our historical Ammas&#8211;mothers of the faith who showed me the face of God. Finally, one day I would find God, here\u00a0<em>with<\/em>\u00a0me\u2013<em>in<\/em>\u00a0me\u2013and discover that I, like my mama, am the reflection of God, I am Mamosta\u2026<em>dona sofia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pieces include:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"theme-generated-button button fancy2-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=955\">Mama, the Sculptor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Mama for&nbsp; making me feel ready to conquer anything. . .and for watching over me until I really could. -D.S. In my earliest pages, God was found wherever my mama happened to be.\u00a0When I had to start leaving her, my days grew dark and uncertain for a time. Then, in the months after running away from home, I was comforted and guided by her words echoing in my soul and by the counsel of Holy Spirit-mother breathing life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-858","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/858\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}