{"id":413,"date":"2017-03-09T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:54:14","slug":"after-her-death-by-mary-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;After Her Death&#8221; by Mary Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>I am trying to find the lesson\r\nfor tomorrow. Matthew something.\r\nWhich lectionary? I have not\r\nforgotten the Way, but, a little,\r\nthe way to the Way. The trees keep whispering\r\npeace, peace, and the birds\r\nin the shallows are full of the\r\nbodies of small fish and are\r\ncontent. They open their wings\r\nso easily, and fly. It is still\r\npossible.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I open the book\r\nwhich the strange, difficult, beautiful church\r\nhas given me. To Matthew. Anywhere.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">From <em>Thirst<\/em>, published by Beacon Press. Copyright \u00a9 2007 by Mary Oliver<\/span>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hear the speaker in this poem struggling to find her footing in the midst of grief. She is not hopeless, as she witnesses the whispering peace of the wind and the flight of birds, but she has lost her way. She turns back to the book, to the Gospel, looking for wisdom, the lesson for tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Are there passages in scripture you turn to for wisdom when you are experiencing grief?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to find the lesson for tomorrow. Matthew something. Which lectionary? I have not forgotten the Way, but, a little, the way to the Way. The trees keep whispering peace, peace, and the birds in the shallows are full of the bodies of small fish and are content. They open their wings so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;After Her Death&#8221; by Mary Oliver<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}