{"id":4329,"date":"2015-12-09T20:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2015-12-09T20:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:49:19","slug":"a-heartwarming-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/a-heartwarming-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heartwarming Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\"><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/22152446\/holiday.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4330\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/12\/22152446\/holiday.jpeg\" alt=\"holiday\" width=\"274\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>WISHING YOU AND YOURS<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><em><strong>A HEARTWARMING HOLIDAY<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #003300\">Holy is the breath of each sacred day, rising through the mist of Creation into the bright plains of sunlight, coursing through human bones and being, consecrated in circle of family, friendship, community; penetrating soul in baptismal rivers of faith; ships of endurance, fleets of fortitude, sails unfurled in gracious carriage winds, moving on seas of kinship and courage; generations told in story, ancestors recalled by the fire, lanterns of Love glowing against towering night; landscape of children in flowering of joy and laughter; women by the water, blessing and being blessed; men under aged oaks, recalling, recanting, rejoicing in language of bravado; elders gazing their kin through windows of tears, tears or gratitude, thankfulness, wonder and awe; awesome cleavage of time through dreaming and vision; drum journeys opening new paths in sky; many drums speaking one tongue of soul desire; particles of fire, flame dancing, burning of gloom and regret into hope&#8217;s house illuminated; tribal reunion sentried over by eagles drafting; kin dancing, raising dust of ceremony, raising a people&#8217;s One spirit, ressurecting relationship: those bindings of life&#8217;s sacred web, strands of earth and water, fire and sky, woman and man, child and grand, now and then, here and soon; monsoon of how we Love, soaking singularity in ocean of spirituality; breaking bread over the long table, pouring healing juice, making truce, strong hearts surrendering to Greatness, tears in the water, Holy in the house, bowing to this Vast provision of life and living, this Constant Giving; seeing the Truth that sets us free: Thanks is giving. Thanks IS Giving. Feast table is full and flowing. Harvest is here, as always&#8230; ripe, roasted, baked, browned, blessed. Thanks is served. Eat plenty. Eat plenty.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h1 align=\"center\">Warm Wishes,<\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulwater.org\/\">Soul Water Rising<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WISHING YOU AND YOURS A HEARTWARMING HOLIDAY\u00a0 \u00a0 Holy is the breath of each sacred day, rising through the mist of Creation into the bright plains of sunlight, coursing through human bones and being, consecrated in circle of family, friendship, community; penetrating soul in baptismal rivers of faith; ships of endurance, fleets of fortitude, sails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poety","category-the-arts","tag-jaiya-john"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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