{"id":1348,"date":"2021-12-26T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2021-12-26T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T20:08:23","slug":"blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/12\/26\/blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Blasphemy<\/strong><\/p>\n

A crooner –
\nI think it\u2019s
\nJohnny Mathis –
\nis telling me
\nit\u2019s a Holy Night,
\nthat a Saviour
\nwas born.<\/p>\n

I have no
\nagenda to
\npersuade you,
\nI\u2019m just
\nmusing,
\nbut<\/p>\n

I wonder
\nwhat I\u2019m being
\nsaved from.<\/p>\n

Question:
\nIf that ray
\nof sunlight
\npiercing the
\nglass icicles
\non your
\nChristmas tree
\ncould speak,<\/p>\n

and announced
\nto you that
\nit was
\nThe Sun,<\/p>\n

would that be
\nblasphemy?<\/p>\n

If I were
\nto tell you
\nthat you are
\nas divine as
\nthat Child,<\/p>\n

your Birth
\na ray of sunlight
\nevery bit
\nas holy,<\/p>\n

would that be
\na sacrilege?<\/p>\n

I Am
\nbeginning to
\nbelieve
\nthat He came
\nto make a
\nBeliever
\nout of
\nyou.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Phil Hearing; Unsplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Blasphemy A crooner – I think it\u2019s Johnny Mathis – is telling me it\u2019s a Holy Night, that a Saviour was born. I have no agenda to persuade you, I\u2019m just musing, but I wonder what I\u2019m being saved from. Question: If that ray of sunlight piercing the glass icicles on your Christmas tree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t