{"id":859,"date":"2007-05-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/voice-of-day-howard-thurman-2.html"},"modified":"2007-05-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T09:00:00","slug":"voice-of-day-howard-thurman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godspolitics\/2007\/05\/voice-of-day-howard-thurman-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice of the Day: Howard Thurman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All travelers, somewhere along the way, find it necessary to check their course, to see how they are doing. We wait until we are sick, or shocked into stillness, before we do the commonplace thing of getting our bearings. And yet, we wonder why we are depressed, why we are unhappy, why we lose our friends, why we are ill-tempered. This condition we pass on to our children, our husbands, our wives, our associates, our friends. Cultivate the mood to linger. &#8230; Who knows? 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