{"id":903,"date":"2014-12-25T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/creation-longings\/"},"modified":"2014-12-25T03:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T08:00:24","slug":"creation-longings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/creation-longings\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation Longings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Melodious Monk<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, All the trees of the forest singing for Joy. From the great\u00a0Sequoia&#8217;s of the Redwood forest to the scrub pines along the Cape Cod highways, imagine what <em>all<\/em>\u00a0tree&#8217;s singing might sound like?\u00a0 Will they be beautiful? Will they make audible words?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, The earth being opened and budding forth the Savior, <em>all<\/em> creation being in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, <em>All<\/em> of our longings, deepest desires and emptiness&#8211;reconciled, vanished.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, That today, Blessed are <em>all\u00a0<\/em>the poor in spirit, for Light is shed upon the righteous and Joy on the upright in heart.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine,\u00a0 The possibilities for hope this year. For today, Hodie Christus Natus Est!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4099842\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/natus-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/4C8V51EzmgQ\" 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 Imagine, All the trees of the forest singing for Joy. From the great\u00a0Sequoia&#8217;s of the Redwood forest to the scrub pines along the Cape Cod highways, imagine what all\u00a0tree&#8217;s singing might sound like?\u00a0 Will they be beautiful? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/creation-longings\/\">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-903","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\/903","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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}