{"id":4144,"date":"2011-05-27T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2011-05-27T00:07:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:37:41","slug":"all-around-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2011\/4144\/","title":{"rendered":"Help me shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Outside the moon lights the sky,<br \/>\nOften hidden by clouds,<br \/>\nThat is hidden by the leaves on the trees.<br \/>\nI still see the moon shining. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">I see it, as it is a part of me.<br \/>\nThe petals on the flowers are blooming<br \/>\nMorning glories, hydrangea, and lilies,<br \/>\nAll ready to greet the first morning light<br \/>\nWith their blossoms and scent. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">They do more than I do in the very early morning hours.<br \/>\nWhy in this human form, do I wander lost and crying?<br \/>\nMother, You are all around me, in everything I see.<br \/>\nExamples of your Selflessness, your abundance of love,<br \/>\nIs seen in the smallest and grandest of creation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">In me, I struggle to shine even the smallest amount of light.<br \/>\nI struggle to give the scent of the flower you planted me to be.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">I offer you my heart. Please make it Your rose.<br \/>\nI offer You my hands. Please help me to always comfort anyone in need.<br \/>\nI offer You my life. Please help me to uncover the clouds that hide it.<br \/>\nPlease let me shine; humbly shine, every moment, for all time.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/><em><strong>by Lasita &#8211; Angela Gilbert <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside the moon lights the sky, Often hidden by clouds, That is hidden by the leaves on the trees. I still see the moon shining. I see it, as it is a part of me. The petals on the flowers are blooming Morning glories, hydrangea, and lilies, All ready to greet the first morning light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}