{"id":88,"date":"2021-11-26T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=88"},"modified":"2021-11-26T11:15:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T11:15:56","slug":"2021-11-26-h60y160v7fl0lzypx8jdkvjfppnss2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m seeking aliveness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">What we all want is pretty simple, really. We want to be alive. To feel alive. Not just to exist but to thrive, to live out loud, walk tall, breathe free. We want to be less lonely, less exhausted, less conflicted or afraid . . . more awake, more grateful, more energized and purposeful. We capture this kind of mindful, overbrimming life in terms like&nbsp;<em>well-being, shalom<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>blessedness, wholeness, harmony, life to the full,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>aliveness.&nbsp;<\/em>. . . It\u2019s why we gather, celebrate, eat, abstain, attend, practice, sing, and contemplate. When people say \u201cI\u2019m spiritual,\u201d what they mean, I think, is simple: \u201cI\u2019m seeking aliveness.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Brian D. McLaren,&nbsp;<em>We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation<\/em>&nbsp;(Jericho Books: 2014), xv.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we all want is pretty simple, really. We want to be alive. To feel alive. Not just to exist but to thrive, to live out loud, walk tall, breathe free. We want to be less lonely, less exhausted, less conflicted or afraid . . . more awake, more grateful, more energized and purposeful. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}