{"id":105842952,"date":"2023-03-01T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=105842952"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:49:01","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-monastic-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=105842952","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Monastic Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A poem about the flow of time in Brighid&#8217;s routine. <\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cb46643e-9ec5-4822-8565-b5ad01d251db_6720x4480.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a clear hourglass. A thick antique book is to its left. A bouquet of purple flowers and a couple other small items are on top of the book. The area is mostly dark except for the objects highlighted in a soft light.) Credit: https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@nate_dumlao<\/p><p>Brighid requested a poem this week, so I wrote one that focused somewhat on a topic I&#8217;ve been musing over for the past week. <\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monastic Time<\/h3><p>\u2018Tween the dark neither-then <\/p><p>and neither-now,<\/p><p>Brighid rises.<\/p><p>The creeping rays greet Her<\/p><p>as prayers are sung, and<\/p><p>the animals tended.<\/p><p>Tools mended, <\/p><p>and horses shodded,<\/p><p>the sun arcs as Brighid works. <\/p><p>A blessing hummed, as<\/p><p>food is relished <\/p><p>and ideas flow \u2018neath the noon sun.<\/p><p>Herbs gathered,<\/p><p>with well water imbued, <\/p><p>Her healing is bestowed with afternoon beams.<\/p><p>As the sun sets, <\/p><p>Brighid passes Her oak,<\/p><p>bare branches among the vernal greenery. <\/p><p>The tree completes its task,<\/p><p>in its own way and time,<\/p><p>like a spiral on its course.<\/p><p>She smiles, sagely <\/p><p>as sure as prayers said, <\/p><p>life knows the way.<\/p><p>Stars then shine above,<\/p><p>a call for the next prayers,<\/p><p>Brighid rests as the cycle starts anew.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem about the flow of time in Brighid&#8217;s routine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105842952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105842952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105842952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105842952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105842952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105842952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105842952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}