{"id":415,"date":"2010-11-18T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-11-22T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:22:07","slug":"the-peace-of-wild-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/the-peace-of-wild-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peace of Wild Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by  Wendell  Berry<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When despair for the world grows in me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>and I wake in the night at the least sound<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>in fear of what my life and my children\u2019s lives may be,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I go and lie down where the wood drake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I come into the peace of wild things<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>who do not tax their lives with forethought<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>of grief. I come into the presence of still water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And I feel above me the day-blind stars<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>waiting with their light. For a time<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on November 14<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children\u2019s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I [&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\/415"}],"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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}