{"id":2730,"date":"2023-12-08T07:32:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2023-12-10T13:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T21:37:45","slug":"light-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/12\/08\/light-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/cristofer-maximilian-YK8Mvocj6yE-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/cristofer-maximilian-YK8Mvocj6yE-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/cristofer-maximilian-YK8Mvocj6yE-unsplash.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/cristofer-maximilian-YK8Mvocj6yE-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Light Being<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Let\u2019s say<br \/>\nYou\u2019re in<br \/>\nThe Black Hole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Your Self-Examination<br \/>\nreveals a Self<br \/>\nso full of Flaws<br \/>\nYou\u2019re not sure<br \/>\nYou can continue<br \/>\nto hide them,<br \/>\nespecially from<br \/>\nYour Self.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It\u2019s shameful,<br \/>\nthe way You<br \/>\nwrap Your arms<br \/>\naround Your<br \/>\nself-inflicted<br \/>\nwounds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">refusing to<br \/>\nuse those arms to<br \/>\nembrace<br \/>\neven those<br \/>\nWho desire<br \/>\nto feel Your arms<br \/>\naround Them,<br \/>\nscars and all,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Other Selves<br \/>\nwith wounds<br \/>\nof Their own,<br \/>\nperhaps sitting<br \/>\nnext to You,<br \/>\nthere in<br \/>\nThe Black Hole.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">There are days<br \/>\nwhen You even believe<br \/>\nthe best thing<br \/>\nwould be to<br \/>\npitch forward and<br \/>\nfall into The Abyss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">But there\u2019s more<br \/>\nto You than<br \/>\nflaws and scars!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Emerging from<br \/>\nSomewhere near<br \/>\nYour Heart,<br \/>\nawaiting Your summons,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">a Being<br \/>\nmade of Light,<br \/>\nwearing<br \/>\na shameless grin,<br \/>\narms wide,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Who swallows You whole,<br \/>\nuntil You are<br \/>\nthe Light Being,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">and there is<br \/>\nno Black Hole<br \/>\nthat can<br \/>\nhold You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Cristofer Maximilian; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Light Being Let\u2019s say You\u2019re in The Black Hole. Your Self-Examination reveals a Self so full of Flaws You\u2019re not sure You can continue to hide them, especially from Your Self. It\u2019s shameful, the way You wrap Your arms around Your self-inflicted wounds, refusing to use those arms to embrace even those Who desire [&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-2730","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\/2730","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=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}