{"id":1219,"date":"2020-05-04T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/messenger\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T13:51:03","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/from-the-publisher\/waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14322509\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<br>&nbsp;<br>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s that moment between the time you<br>open your eye wide and the puff of air<br>makes you flinch or<br>that second just before your finger is pricked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s that hour in the neighbor\u2019s basement after<br>the tornado siren that pierced your nap.<br>There\u2019s that week between<br>the lab test and the phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s that bedside vigil after<br>her breathing slows and<br>time stands still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These kinds of waiting we know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not this waiting<br>stretched out for miles and mountains<br>because we cannot tell where the horizon shifts<br>or what lies beyond that blurred line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together and apart we tend<br>our anxious thoughts\u2014<br>baby birds that must be fed<br>before they can fly away\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">hoping for mercy and maybe<br>giving mercy too.<br>A fire consumes the familiar and<br>we wait<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for shoots of greening life<br>raw and tender.<br>We will love that holy ground with<br>a fierceness we did not know we had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s that moment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,420],"tags":[49,152,255,259,421,38],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-publisher","category-poetry","tag-from-the-publisher","tag-podcast","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-waiting","tag-wendy-mcfadden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}