{"id":743,"date":"2021-01-21T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/?p=743"},"modified":"2021-01-21T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T15:11:52","slug":"reflection-from-mary-anne-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/reflection-from-mary-anne-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection from Mary Anne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                      \u2014Danielle LaPorte<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are continually searching for our authentic selves. The faster I move, the more I forget. The slower I go, the more I can remember. Softness remembers; hardness forgets; surrender remembers and fear forgets. In these days of political strife, rampant pandemic, and economic hardship, I can become numb and wonder who am I, what am I about? I sometimes feel that I am operating like a robot and I am on automatic pilot.  Before the pandemic, I was meeting with friends, having coffee or dinner. I was involved in church activities and volunteered in the food pantry. Since the pandemic I don\u2019t have those connections. I have to work harder at keeping my head straight and maintaining my authentic self. I realize now that I had been defining myself by my outside activities. It is important for me to slow down, and tune out the world, even for a short time. This time between pandemic and no pandemic is fallow time. Fallow time is when farmers allow a field to lie dormant, not plant, and let the soil rest. This is my time to be fallow, and more contemplative. I need to sit with myself and develop spiritual reserve in order to be of service to others. One way to do this is to: sit quietly, breathe in and out slowly, breathe softly and imagine my breath is cleansing water. <\/em>I can then re-enter the world, energized, and ready to be my authentic self and to give to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time,<\/em><\/p>

when women were birds,<\/em><\/p>

there was a simple understanding<\/em><\/p>

that to sing at dawn<\/em><\/p>

and to sing at dusk<\/em><\/p>

was to heal the world through joy.<\/em><\/p>

The birds still remember<\/em><\/p>

what we have forgotten,<\/em><\/p>

that the world<\/em><\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0is meant to be celebrated.<\/em><\/p>\u2014Terry Tempest Williams<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

May you find rest in the joy of each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Anne Totten, CPE Intern<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?                       \u2014Danielle LaPorte We are continually searching for our authentic selves. The faster I move, the more I forget. The slower I go, the more I can remember. Softness remembers; hardness forgets; surrender remembers and fear forgets. In these days … Continue reading Reflection from Mary Anne<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}