{"id":113,"date":"2013-10-24T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=113"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:43","slug":"rape-revolutionary-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/10\/24\/rape-revolutionary-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagore 5  in praise of meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 24<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In easy times you don&#8217;t have to be so careful about your language, you will spontaneously find playful words, wise with kindness. In hard time it helps to pay attention to word choices. I decided to choose one prayer or poem each work day for a while.&#8221; {Wednesday September 25, 2013}<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a post this work day morning stirred memories I sometimes overlook. Here is one, a prayer-poem rediscovered c. 7:20 today as if it were completely new, a blessing from a century ago sent my way by Rabindranath Tagore, that endlessly surprising writer. I&#8217;m glad to pass it along.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings on your day.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I ask for a moment&#8217;s indulgence to sit by thy side,<br \/>\nThe works that I have in hand<br \/>\nI will finish afterwards.<br \/>\nAway from the sight of thy face my heart knows<br \/>\nno rest nor respite,<br \/>\nand my work becomes an endless toil<br \/>\nin a shoreless sea of toil.<br \/>\nNow is the time to sit quiet, face to face with thee<br \/>\nand to sing dedication of life<br \/>\nin this silent and overflowing leisure.<\/p>\n<p>Tagore 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 24 &#8220;In easy times you don&#8217;t have to be so careful about your language, you will spontaneously find playful words, wise with kindness. In hard time it helps to pay attention to word choices. I decided to choose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2013\/10\/24\/rape-revolutionary-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}