{"id":2261,"date":"2023-02-11T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2023-02-12T09:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T17:42:54","slug":"pebbles-and-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/02\/11\/pebbles-and-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Pebbles and Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/andre-alexander-dEeNHOcQy_U-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/andre-alexander-dEeNHOcQy_U-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/andre-alexander-dEeNHOcQy_U-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/andre-alexander-dEeNHOcQy_U-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Pebbles and Dust<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Hats off to the<br \/>\nPoets and Painters<br \/>\nWho help us see<br \/>\nthe Beauty<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">in even the<br \/>\nsmall,<br \/>\nordinary<br \/>\npebble<br \/>\nlodged<br \/>\nbetween the<br \/>\nsoles of<br \/>\nYour foot and<br \/>\nYour sandal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u2019s a gift<br \/>\nto know how<br \/>\nto find<br \/>\nbeauty<br \/>\neven there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But what of<br \/>\nthe dust<br \/>\nbeneath<br \/>\nYour sandal?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">From which,<br \/>\nan ancient penman<br \/>\nwrote,<br \/>\nThe Creator<br \/>\nformed<br \/>\nYour frame<br \/>\nand blew<br \/>\nLife<br \/>\ninto it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The Truth<br \/>\nin this bit<br \/>\nof fancy<br \/>\nis this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Even dust<br \/>\nbeneath<br \/>\nYour feet<br \/>\nbears more<br \/>\nthan Beauty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">All That Is<br \/>\ntouched by<br \/>\nthe Breath of<br \/>\nThe Divine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">must also be<br \/>\ncalled<br \/>\nBeloved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Andre Alexander; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pebbles and Dust Hats off to the Poets and Painters Who help us see the Beauty in even the small, ordinary pebble lodged between the soles of Your foot and Your sandal. It\u2019s a gift to know how to find beauty even there. But what of the dust beneath Your sandal? From which, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}