{"id":69914854,"date":"2022-08-23T13:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=69914854"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:01:05","slug":"the-illuminating-spark-brighid-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/?p=69914854","title":{"rendered":"The Illuminating Spark: Brighid of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A poem honoring Brighid in Her connection to the sea.<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/e59e7392-f29a-4ff2-9cc6-7fc776b79243_6000x4000.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><p>(Image description: A close-up photo of sunlight hitting sea foam on a wave. Buildings and land can be seen in the distance. Sunlit clouds are in the sky.) Credit: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@rylomedia?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Ryan Loughlin<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/sea?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brighid of the Sea<\/h3><p>Brighid of the Sea,<\/p><p>Holiness of the depths!<\/p><p>When people think of You,<\/p><p>the realm that comes to mind<\/p><p>is the sky or the land.<\/p><p>For Your lofty nature,<\/p><p>Your blessings of spring<\/p><p>o\u2019er glen and hill.<\/p><p>The sea sways with Your power,<\/p><p>in the lapping ripples of Your wells<\/p><p>to the taming of tempests.<\/p><p>Fisher-folk feel Your protection<\/p><p>in their catches and boats,<\/p><p>under the shining, sacred rays of Your cross.<\/p><p>Traditions carried on ships<\/p><p>passengers, hearts full of embers<\/p><p>holding You in their hearts<\/p><p>Waves reach across the realms,<\/p><p>spiraling \u2018tween sea and sky<\/p><p>falling from sky to land.<\/p><p>A forge-bath cooling steel<\/p><p>Well-water easing injury and illness<\/p><p>Sun blessing water as imbas<\/p><p>Brighid of the Sea,<\/p><p>Exalted One of Well and Wave!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem honoring Brighid in Her connection to the sea.<\/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-69914854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69914854","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=69914854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69914854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69914854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69914854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.illuminatingspark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69914854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}