{"id":71705,"date":"2020-06-27T21:26:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71705"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:26:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:26:42","slug":"reverence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/reverence\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reverence<\/p>\n<p>in the silence between butterfly wings<br \/>\nbetween hummingbird heartbeats<br \/>\nbetween us, there is the space of prayer<\/p>\n<p>find it in a grain as small as a mustard seed<br \/>\nin a trust large as the firmament<br \/>\nin a sacrosanct place for contemplation<\/p>\n<p>be a witness to miracles of water and wine<br \/>\nbe the reason for blessings bestowed on the needy<br \/>\nthe giver of alms, receiver of indulgences<\/p>\n<p>to pursue a life of sanctifying grace<br \/>\nto bring righteous to all your actions<br \/>\nto embrace faith when all the world is doubting<\/p>\n<p>find peace in devotional scripture<br \/>\nin the stillness of pond water at twilight<br \/>\nin the epicenter of your soul<\/p>\n<p>bring a resurrection of divine traditions<br \/>\na heart able to follow God\u2019s will<br \/>\nbring gratitude and fortitude to all you meet<\/p>\n<p>to begin, to end<br \/>\na sacred word<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 27, 2020<br \/>\nHour 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverence in the silence between butterfly wings between hummingbird heartbeats between us, there is the space of prayer find it in a grain as small as a mustard seed in a trust large as the firmament in a sacrosanct place for contemplation be a witness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71725,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71705\/revisions\/71725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}