{"id":429,"date":"2017-03-09T19:44:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2017-03-09T19:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:44:21","slug":"the-wind-will-show-its-kindness-by-meister-eckhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Wind Will Show Its Kindness&#8221; by Meister Eckhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>A man born blind can easily deny\r\nthe significance of a vast landscape.\r\n\r\nHe can easily deny \r\nall the wonders that he cannot touch, \r\nsmell, taste, or hear.\r\n\r\nBut one day the wind will show its kindness\r\nand remove the tiny patches that cover your eyes,\r\n\r\nAnd you will see God more clearly \r\nthan you have ever seen yourself.<\/pre>\n<p>This is a puzzling poem that provokes contemplation. What do you make of it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man born blind can easily deny the significance of a vast landscape. He can easily deny all the wonders that he cannot touch, smell, taste, or hear. But one day the wind will show its kindness and remove the tiny patches that cover your eyes, And you will see God more clearly than you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/?p=429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Wind Will Show Its Kindness&#8221; by Meister Eckhart<\/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":[40,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-for-contemplation","category-prayer","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovinceofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}