{"id":946,"date":"2021-03-05T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/?p=946"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:29:15","slug":"reflection-from-marianne-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/reflection-from-marianne-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection from Marianne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Marianne-photo-3-5-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Marianne-photo-3-5-21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Marianne-photo-3-5-21-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have heard the saying, <em>\u201cMarch comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp; According to this weather folklore, early March is a time when we often experience a Lion\u2019s fierce roar of frigid cold, the long white teeth of biting winds that can cut through flesh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March certainly came in like a lion this month.&nbsp; No sooner did we turn the calendar from February to March, than bitter cold and blustery winds from the Artic polar vortex descended into New England.&nbsp; In its wake, power lines and trees toppled causing power outages at Havenwood Heritage Heights and throughout the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I looked out my window, I saw how the trees around me were responding to the wind.&nbsp; I can\u2019t help feeling that every life encounters windstorms and, like the trees, we must respond.&nbsp; The question is, how?&nbsp; What can we learn from the trees?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many sacred writings from different spiritual traditions provide teachings that rigid trees break in gale winds, but flexible trees survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chapter 76 of The Tao cautions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201c\u2026. the stiff and hard are attendants of death, the supple and soft are attendants of life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An old Shaker hymn puts it plainly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cYielding and simple may I be, like a pliant willow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In unsettling times, may we look to the trees as reminders of how to be supple and flexible in the midst of the storm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marianne DiBlasi, CPE Intern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the saying, \u201cMarch comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.\u201d&nbsp; According to this weather folklore, early March is a time when we often experience a Lion\u2019s fierce roar of frigid cold, the long white teeth of biting winds that can cut through flesh.&nbsp; March certainly came in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/reflection-from-marianne-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflection from Marianne<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-946","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\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}