{"id":391,"date":"2017-12-04T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-12-04T08:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:17:39","slug":"glimpse-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Glimpse One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I seek to prepare to celebrate the birth of God-with-Us this year by watching for instances of the holy breaking into the ordinary.\u00a0 With eyes wide open and a spirit attempting to be attentive, I will share glimpses of glory that I witness as Christmas approaches.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A light shines in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>On it&#8217;s way down and out for the night, the sun we hadn&#8217;t seen all day shattered the dark, impenetrable shroud that engulfed us. Bursting it&#8217;s restraints with a beacon of light, it sent shards and scraps of clouds scurrying. Creating a thin vein of brightness, the light pierced late day, thick headed self-absorption. Dispersing the clouds, poking holes in despair, delicately adding wisps of pink, probing with hope, the sun persisted. And then it exited with a promise: no storm will last forever, no injustice will endure, no hatred will have the last word.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seek to prepare to celebrate the birth of God-with-Us this year by watching for instances of the holy breaking into the ordinary.\u00a0 With eyes wide open and a spirit attempting to be attentive, I will share glimpses of glory that I witness as Christmas approaches. A light shines in the darkness. On it&#8217;s way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/?p=391\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9P5sD-6j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amcling.northernhorizons.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}