{"id":136326255,"date":"2023-08-23T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=136326255"},"modified":"2023-08-23T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:01:02","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-little-candle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=136326255","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Little Candle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A poem about faith in the face of climate grief.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1697e9b0-8b90-4a2f-8f86-c7ba96bc212d_4752x3168.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a pair of hands that hold a glass candleholder with a lit candle inside. The light dimly shows the person\u2019s clothing in the dark.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@ernan93?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">ErnAn Soloz\u00e1bal<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/wukki7IloUg?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Little Candle<\/h3><p>I am a candle,<\/p><p>the flame in my heart<\/p><p>an offering in everything I do.<\/p><p>Its glow and rhythm<\/p><p>flickering in time<\/p><p>with the tides of life,<\/p><p>the heart drifts.<\/p><p>In the grieving Earth,<\/p><p>the torrents of floods and fires,<\/p><p>with the loss of what was,<\/p><p>and the unknown of what will be,<\/p><p>the spark wavers.<\/p><p>I am a candle,<\/p><p>sputtering in the dark<\/p><p>with hope the only fuel.<\/p><p>The flame of my heart<\/p><p>burns despite the creeping woe,<\/p><p>an offering in the dimming future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem about faith in the face of climate grief.<\/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-136326255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136326255","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=136326255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136326255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136326255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136326255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136326255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}