{"id":2606,"date":"2018-03-14T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:38","slug":"march-14-david-whyte-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/03\/14\/march-14-david-whyte-the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"March 14 &#8211; David Whyte  &#8220;The Journey&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, March 14 \u201cso you can find the one line<br \/>\nalready written inside you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>St. Ignatius teaches the art of noticing what wants to be remembered. Try to remember everything and you turn wacky before long. Noticing what wants your attention, wants to surprise you, wants to encourage you, wants to keep you company during fatigue and grief \u2014 that, for Ignatius, is the heart of prayer, day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s poet, David Whyte, gets it. To entice you to read the poem out loud, with pauses, an audio of his voice reading today\u2019s post waits for you after the text and a picture. Have a blest day mid-week in mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u201cThe Journey\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Above the mountains<\/p>\n<p>the geese turn into<br \/>\nthe light again<\/p>\n<p>Painting their<br \/>\nblack silhouettes<br \/>\non an open sky.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes everything<br \/>\nhas to be<br \/>\ninscribed across<br \/>\nthe heavens<\/p>\n<p>so you can find<br \/>\nthe one line<br \/>\nalready written<br \/>\ninside you.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it takes<br \/>\na great sky<br \/>\nto find that<\/p>\n<p>first, bright<br \/>\nand indescribable<br \/>\nwedge of freedom<br \/>\nin your own heart.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes with<br \/>\nthe bones of the black<br \/>\nsticks left when the fire<br \/>\nhas gone out<\/p>\n<p>someone has written<br \/>\nsomething new<br \/>\nin the ashes of your life.<\/p>\n<p>You are not leaving.<br \/>\nEven as the light fades quickly now,<br \/>\nyou are arriving.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PK3GhnHOJc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0962152439\/ref=cm_sw_su_dp\">House of Belonging<\/a> by David Whyte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, March 14 \u201cso you can find the one line already written inside you.\u201d St. Ignatius teaches the art of noticing what wants to be remembered. Try to remember everything and you turn wacky before long. Noticing what wants your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/03\/14\/march-14-david-whyte-the-journey\/\">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\/2606"}],"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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}