{"id":139959721,"date":"2023-12-20T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=139959721"},"modified":"2023-12-20T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:14:07","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-yuletide-stillness-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=139959721","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Yuletide Stillness Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A prayer of stillness during the Winter Solstice.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/61daef26-8e82-4599-88c4-8f998115369e_4000x6000.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of sunlight shining through tall trees. A light dusting of snow covers the forest floor.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@greg_rosenke?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Greg Rosenke<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/a-forest-filled-with-lots-of-trees-covered-in-snow-N67SYgMiU1Y?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yuletide Stillness Prayer<\/h3><p>May the threefold stillness of the winter solstice<\/p><p>follow me in the lengthening days.<\/p><p>In the stillness, may I know the wisdom of my ancestors,<\/p><p>the inspiration and healing from my deities,<\/p><p>the comfort of hearth and home,<\/p><p>the grace of peace in a frantic world,<\/p><p>the blessing of silence against the noise.<\/p><p>May darkness enfold me<\/p><p>that I see the beauty of poetry<\/p><p>hear the song of nature<\/p><p>know with the clarity of insight<\/p><p>to act rightly in the world.<\/p><p>May the darkness grant me joy<\/p><p>in the brightening days<\/p><p>so that I may persevere in the new year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer of stillness during the Winter Solstice.<\/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-139959721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139959721","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=139959721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139959721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139959721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139959721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139959721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}