{"id":146230256,"date":"2024-07-03T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=146230256"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T13:02:58","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-smooring-the-hopefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=146230256","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Smooring the Hopefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A prayer of hope.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/06cd7e6d-12fa-4cbd-a0b5-3cab24a95572_2400x1600.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A photo of a kneeling woman in front of a fireplace. She wears her hair up and wears a light-colored, striped shirt. A string of lights hangs near the fireplace.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@randomlies?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Ashim D\u2019Silva<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/man-in-white-and-black-checkered-dress-shirt-sitting-in-front-of-bonfire-nTJZa8UjVZE?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><p>For one reason or another, the world feels like a dark place right now. It\u2019s difficult to see where humanity is headed, but hope is still like a flame that must be keep alight. As such, I wrote this prayer to reflect that need. This prayer is loosely based off of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sacred-texts.com\/neu\/celt\/cg1\/cg1092.htm\">Smooring the Fire<\/a> prayer from the <em>Carmina Gadelica.<\/em><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Smooring the Hopefire<\/h3><p>The Three Brighids<\/p><p>To soothe,<\/p><p>To kindle,<\/p><p>To guard,<\/p><p>The hope,<\/p><p>The heart,<\/p><p>The world,<\/p><p>This day and this night<\/p><p>Each day and each night,<\/p><p>Through each of the Three Realms.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prayer of hope.<\/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-146230256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146230256","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=146230256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146230256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146230256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146230256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146230256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}