{"id":110072757,"date":"2023-03-22T20:40:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=110072757"},"modified":"2023-03-22T20:40:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:40:38","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-grief-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=110072757","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Grief Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A prayer about grief and its various aspects.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8895804b-4cbd-4742-97ae-9a82cdfb04ce_4000x6000.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a white candle. Its flame flickers and has wax dripping down the left side. Greenery can be seen in the background.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/ja\/@jfdelp?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Jessica Delp<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/grief?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grief Blessing<\/h3><p>Brighid of Keening,<\/p><p>let me feel the waves of emotions.<\/p><p>comfort me when my heart aches,<\/p><p>join me when recalling happy memories.<\/p><p>Brighid of the Seasons,<\/p><p>sow seeds of hope when I need light,<\/p><p>aid me in growing a bright future,<\/p><p>help me to take stock of the things I harvest,<\/p><p>give me rest when I tire in the darkest of days.<\/p><p>Brighid of Healing, ease my mind and my soul.<\/p><p>Brighid of Smithcraft, strengthen my mind to persevere.<\/p><p>Brighid of Poetry, inspire me to beauty when I may not see it.<\/p><p>As it was,<\/p><p>as it is,<\/p><p>as it shall ever be.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer about grief and its various aspects.<\/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-110072757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110072757","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=110072757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110072757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110072757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110072757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110072757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}