{"id":1887,"date":"2007-03-16T00:19:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T07:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/03\/16\/sitting-with-the-unknown\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:03","slug":"sitting-with-the-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/03\/16\/sitting-with-the-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting With the Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am undergoing a medical test that has some risk. Moreover, the results will have a significant impact on my and Husband&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>I am challenged to live in the present while making room in the back of my mind and heart for the unknown. I am scared; I acknowledge this, and then tuck it away while I live in the moment. This process is a difficult one, and it&#8217;s a basis for my spiritual practice. To ponder the possibilities is to avoid living <em>now<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>It will be two or three weeks before I have the test results. Living in the present will require diligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am undergoing a medical test that has some risk. Moreover, the results will have a significant impact on my and Husband&#8217;s life. I am challenged to live in the present while making room in the back of my mind and heart for the unknown. I am scared; I acknowledge this, and then tuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11240,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}