{"id":1430,"date":"2012-05-17T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2012-05-17T20:17:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:17:41","slug":"like-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/like-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Like the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wendell Berry<\/p>\n<p>Like the water<br \/>\nof a deep stream,<br \/>\nlove is always too much.<br \/>\nWe did not make it.<br \/>\nThough we drink till we burst,<br \/>\nwe cannot have it all,<br \/>\nor want it all.<br \/>\nIn its abundance<br \/>\nit survives our thirst.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening we come down to the shore<br \/>\nto drink our fill,<br \/>\nand sleep,<br \/>\nwhile it flows<br \/>\nthrough the regions of the dark.<br \/>\nIt does not hold us,<br \/>\nexcept we keep returning to its rich waters<br \/>\nthirsty.<\/p>\n<p>We enter,<br \/>\nwilling to die,<br \/>\ninto the commonwealth of its joy.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on May 13\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wendell Berry Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot have it all, or want it all. In its abundance it survives our thirst. In the evening we come down to the shore to drink our fill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}