{"id":244,"date":"2021-03-27T03:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T03:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2022-07-21T05:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:33:16","slug":"words-without-lightening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Words Without Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-11.51.57-PM.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-26-at-11.51.57-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2021-03-26 at 11.51.57 PM\" width=\"399\" height=\"572\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Words Without Lightning<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Christmas.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s Christmas. So regardless of any present<br \/>\ndarkness and that which might be close behind,<br \/>\nthere is conviction. There is longing,<br \/>\nthere is hope, because there has to be.<br \/>\nThe whispered blessing draped in sin just might<br \/>\nsave us after all. Our words without lightening,<br \/>\nour actions frail, wisdom still green after so many,<br \/>\ntoo many, chances. The sun, a facade of endless light,<br \/>\nand to learn not only of its surrender<br \/>\nbut of the relieving darkness is a knowledge<br \/>\nthat colors all else: thoughts stirring toward a climax,<br \/>\nhesitations itching for a turning point. It colors<br \/>\neven the thought of you, my friend. Then we see<br \/>\nwith precision perhaps only out of necessity,<br \/>\nbreathe with intentionality only for the flower<br \/>\nthat never made it to full bloom. It\u2019s up to us, now,<br \/>\nnot to forget that darkness or to pretend<br \/>\nwe were untouched by the nightmare. But to use it.<br \/>\nUse it and be blessed. Hang on to rain, for the memory<br \/>\nof lightening. Hang on to lightening, so when you love,<br \/>\nyou \u201clove with a love that is more than love.\u201d*<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                      *<em>Edgar Allen Poe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words Without Lightning It\u2019s Christmas. It\u2019s Christmas. So regardless of any present darkness and that which might be close behind, there is conviction. There is longing, there is hope, because there has to be. The whispered blessing draped in sin just might save us after all. Our words without lightening, our actions frail, wisdom still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Words Without Lightning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginabrillante.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}