{"id":3152,"date":"2023-12-17T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T19:36:35","slug":"advent-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Advent Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope that this morning<br>You find peace<br>I hope there\u2019s a moment of quiet<br>A place of stillness<br>A breath.\u00a0\u00a0Here.<br>A pause.\u00a0\u00a0Now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We could put our thoughts on hold<br>Calm our restlessness and worry<br>Quit the planning<br>Leave off the preparing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We could agree, amongst ourselves<br>That for these few minutes, in this sacred space<br>We will be empty<br>The holy will descend<br>The blessings of the season will come:<br>Light<br>Love<br>Goodwill to all<br>Joy to the world<br>Heavenly peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is nothing to buy<br>There is nowhere to go<br>There is nothing that needs attention<br>Except our precious bodies<br><em>Requiescat in pace<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world turns<br>The long night turns toward day<br>Christmas comes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are open<br>We are rested<br>We are ready to receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that this morningYou find peaceI hope there\u2019s a moment of quietA place of stillnessA breath.\u00a0\u00a0Here.A pause.\u00a0\u00a0Now. We could&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=3152\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advent Meditation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}