{"id":1879,"date":"2017-12-24T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T00:54:28","slug":"an-after-christmas-poem-by-howard-thurman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"An After Christmas Poem by Howard Thurman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Meeting today we did a version of Lessons and Carols, alternating carol singing with passages bout the birth of Jesus from the Bible.&nbsp; The last passage read was this poem by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/about\/dr-thurman\/\">Howard Thurman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Work of Christmas, by Howard Thurman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the song of the angels is stilled,<\/p>\n<p>When the star in the sky is gone,<\/p>\n<p>When the kings and the princes are home,<\/p>\n<p>When the shepherds are back with their flock,<\/p>\n<p>The work of Christmas begins:<\/p>\n<p>To find the lost,<\/p>\n<p>To heal the broken,<\/p>\n<p>To feed the hungry,<\/p>\n<p>To release the prisoner,<\/p>\n<p>To rebuild the nations,<\/p>\n<p>To bring peace among brothers,<\/p>\n<p>To make music in the heart.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Meeting today we did a version of Lessons and Carols, alternating carol singing with passages bout the birth of Jesus from the Bible.&nbsp; The last passage read was this poem by Howard Thurman. The Work of Christmas, by Howard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=1879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42],"tags":[73,74],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message","tag-christmas","tag-howard-thurman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-uj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7427,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/7427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}