{"id":631,"date":"2020-10-08T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=631"},"modified":"2020-10-08T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:51:37","slug":"touching-the-divine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=631","title":{"rendered":"Touching the Divine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Spem in alium, by Thomas Tallis)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Heaven, not a place, a door to the eternal,<br \/>\nopening at the touch of love,<br \/>\nthe sound of singing spilling out<br \/>\naround us and above.<\/p>\n<p>Springs of life are bubbling up<br \/>\nin the harmony of voices,<br \/>\nso sweetly carrying us along<br \/>\nas everything rejoices.<\/p>\n<p>The divine is surrounding us<br \/>\nin bird song, and in wind,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not a far off paradise<br \/>\nbut close at hand I find.<\/p>\n<p>No need to think of dying or<br \/>\nclouds and angel&#8217;s wings,<br \/>\nwe open heaven&#8217;s treasures<br \/>\nin ordinary things.<\/p>\n<p>Sunlight on a raindrop, or<br \/>\nthe sigh of sea on shingle,<br \/>\na blackbird song at dusk, all<br \/>\nwith our senses mingle.<\/p>\n<p>We are part of nature&#8217;s choir,<br \/>\nhuman voices blending, with<br \/>\nall creatures great and small<br \/>\ntheir contribution lending.<\/p>\n<p>Sing together, sing for love,<br \/>\nsing for joy and laughter,<br \/>\nall creation joins with us<br \/>\nit&#8217;s here, and not hereafter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=608\">NEXT POEM &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Spem in alium, by Thomas Tallis)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Heaven, not a place, a door to the eternal,<br \/>\nopening at the touch of love,<br \/>\nthe sound of singing spilling out<br \/>\naround us and above.<\/p>\n<p>Springs of life are bubbling up<br \/>\nin the harmony of voices,<br \/>\nso sweetly carrying us along<br \/>\nas everything rejoices.<\/p>\n<p>The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"margintop-large margintop-xlarge-l clear-both\"><a href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/?page_id=631#s\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Touching the Divine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/631\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/spence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}