{"id":1002,"date":"2005-07-22T01:55:30","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T09:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/22\/a-little-willingness-to-see\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:24:45","slug":"a-little-willingness-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/07\/22\/a-little-willingness-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Willingness To See"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/27737422\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos21.flickr.com\/27737422_4b08560062.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"aura\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance &#8212; for a moment or a year or the span of a life. And then it sinks back into itself again, and to look at it no one would know it had anything to do with fire, or light. &#8230;But the Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don&#8217;t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Marilynne Robinson, <cite>Gilead<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance &#8212; for a moment or a year or the span of a life. And then it sinks back into itself again, and to look at it no one would know it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12550,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/12550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}