{"id":1305,"date":"2015-04-08T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/back-to-heaven\/"},"modified":"2015-04-08T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:00:22","slug":"back-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/back-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Melodious Monk<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack to Heaven\u201d<br \/>\n<em>I\u2019ll go back to heaven again. Hand in hand with the dew That melts at a touch of the dawning day,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I\u2019ll go back to heaven again. <\/em><em>With the dusk, together, just we two, at a sign from a cloud after playing on the slopes<br \/>\n<\/em><em>I\u2019ll go back to heaven again. At the end of my outing to this beautiful world I\u2019ll go back and say: It was beautiful\u2026<br \/>\n<\/em>By Ch&#8217;\u00f4n\u00a0Sang Pyong<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what I will say when I arrive at heaven&#8217;s door &#8212; will it be words of thanks?\u00a0Ch&#8217;\u00f4n\u00a0was\u00a0a Korean poet who suffered\u00a0greatly in his life from brutal torture as a prisoner, and from alcoholism. But Ch&#8217;\u00f4n was said to be a very happy man despite all of his hardships.\u00a0There&#8217;s a reassuring simplicity to his words\u00a0and\u00a0his poetry reflects a hope that grew out of him through his struggles.<\/p>\n<p>This Easter season, through the power and miracle of the resurrection, God has given us a perpetual chance to live, repent, and keep living, with-in and as His creation.\u00a0 As the weather warms, and the earth starts to grow again, we should take time to notice and appreciate what he has given us\u2014for all creation is\u00a0beautiful!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4655557\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/back-to-heaven.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"269\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/0AHKtdhoJxQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Melodious Monk \u201cBack to Heaven\u201d I\u2019ll go back to heaven again. Hand in hand with the dew That melts at a touch of the dawning day, I\u2019ll go back to heaven again. With the dusk, together, just we two, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/back-to-heaven\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}