{"id":139257972,"date":"2023-11-29T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=139257972"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T14:01:20","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-offering-prayer-of-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=139257972","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Offering Prayer of Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An offering prayer for physical therapy.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/59d08c5a-196c-45b3-a663-f27f4bb8d500_3737x2492.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a silhouetted figure standing in front of the sea at dusk with the sun\u2019s light hitting the clouds in shades of purple and pink.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@sashafreemind?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Sasha Freemind<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/silhouette-of-a-woman-with-pink-and-purple-sky-nXo2ZsKHTHg?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Offering Prayer of Healing<\/h3><p>Brighid, Lady of the Healing Well,<\/p><p>Nodens, Lord of the Reviving Rivers and Seas,<\/p><p>may my physical efforts be an offering to You.<\/p><p>May the strengthening of my limbs<\/p><p>honor You as I go about my days,<\/p><p>as I contemplate Your natures.<\/p><p>May the bountiful blessings of Your waters<\/p><p>flow through me as I write prayers and poetry.<\/p><p>May each step reach not toward perfection,<\/p><p>but improvement of body, spirit, and mind.<\/p><p>May my renewed gait be as a holy prayer<\/p><p>walked in Your honor.<\/p><p>May my mundane endeavors extol You.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An offering prayer for physical therapy.<\/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-139257972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139257972","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=139257972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139257972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139257972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139257972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139257972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}