{"id":2643,"date":"2019-06-04T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:43:57","slug":"two-poems-for-childrens-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=2643","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems for Children&#8217;s Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two poems read by Amy Kustra on Children&#8217;s Sunday, June 2, at Durham Friends Meeting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On this day, we pray for tender compassion on all the little ones, whose souls, so fresh from the light, shine in our midst with a darling adorable brightness.\u00a0                                                                          May we honor them deeply, learn from the truly, respecting the deep wisdom they carry. \u00a0Make us wise in our nurturing of then, generous in our loving, unending in our compassion, expansive in our\u00a0wisdom, kind in our intelligence, and graceful with\u00a0our hearts. \u00a0Let us give to them and receive from them, and let it be known among us that they are neither our projects nor our possessions, but messengers of light, illuminations of love.\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daphnekingma.com\/\">Daphne Rose Kingma<\/a> from the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grateful-Heart-Ways-Thanks-Mealtime\/dp\/1573245372\">A Grateful Heart\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Today\u00a0with Spring here finally we ought to be living outdoors with our friends.                                   Let&#8217;s go to those strangers in the field and dance around them like bees from flower to flower building in the beehive air our true hexagonal homes.<\/em>\u00a0      excerpt from &#8220;The Whole Place Goes Up,&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/jalal-al-din-rumi\">Rumi<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two poems read by Amy Kustra on Children&#8217;s Sunday, June 2, at Durham Friends Meeting On this day, we pray for tender compassion on all the little ones, whose souls, so fresh from the light, shine in our midst with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=2643\">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":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-message"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-GD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","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=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}