{"id":1417,"date":"2015-05-08T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-light-of\/"},"modified":"2015-05-08T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T07:00:18","slug":"in-light-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-light-of\/","title":{"rendered":"In Light Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Sr. Nun Other<br \/>\nDuring our weekly Liturgy of the Hours, we encounter these words from Psalm 36<i>: In Your light, we see light.<\/i> It occurs to me that my light &#8212; in and of itself &#8212; is based on <strong>me. <\/strong>I transfuse advice with my experiences, my opinions, and unfortunately, my agenda. God&#8217;s light is a burst of life, clear and transparent, that transmits a spectrum of multifaceted color. When I&#8217;m tempted to speak too quickly, I need to focus through the prism of God&#8217;s love. <i>In Your light, we see light.<\/i> This one, wonderful sentence tucked in the middle of a Psalm, makes all the difference.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4864860\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1389-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/-6Z1cfxbCr4\" 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\u00a0Sr. Nun Other During our weekly Liturgy of the Hours, we encounter these words from Psalm 36: In Your light, we see light. It occurs to me that my light &#8212; in and of itself &#8212; is based on me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-light-of\/\">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-1417","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\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}