{"id":3041,"date":"2016-02-22T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:47:45","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/2016\/02\/22\/gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 GRATITUDE\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gratitude by unknown<br \/>\nI am grateful for my limits that teach me patience and pace<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for challenge, defeat, and loss<\/p>\n<p>They teach me hope is not a light at the end of the dark tunnel<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the ember burning within me that I forgot to fan<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to my teachers for introducing me to myself<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for my past that has delivered me to my present<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for all I have found and all I have lost. Both remind me I can live with and without<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for silence and for laughter And for my ears that can hear both<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful to my heart that beats and breaks and heals<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for the fullness of my life. For the brief, heartbreaking, heartwarming fullness of life.<\/p>\n<p>In the end by Tara Mohr<br \/>\nIn the end you won\u2019t be known for the things you did, or what you built, or what you said.<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t even be known for the love given or the hearts saved, because in the end you won\u2019t be known.<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t be asked, by a vast creator full of light: What did you do to be known?<\/p>\n<p>You will be asked: Did you know it, this place, this journey?<\/p>\n<p>What there is to know can\u2019t be written.<br \/>\nSomething between the crispness of air and the glint in her eye and the texture of the orange peel.<\/p>\n<p>What you\u2019ll want a thousand years from now is this: a memory that beats like a heart\u2013 a travel memory, of what it was to walk here, alive and warm and textured within.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet brightness, aliveness, take-me-now-ness that is life.<br \/>\nYou are here to pay attention. That is enough.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_6693.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_6693.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gratitude by unknown I am grateful for my limits that teach me patience and pace I am grateful for challenge, defeat, and loss They teach me hope is not a light at the end of the dark tunnel It\u2019s the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/2016\/02\/22\/gratitude\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}