{"id":810,"date":"2005-03-15T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/15\/gods-presence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:47","slug":"gods-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/15\/gods-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>God&#8217;s presence is there in front of me &#8211; a fire on the left, <br \/>\na lovely stream on the right.  <br \/>\nOne group walks toward the fire, into the fire, another<br \/>\ntoward the sweet flowing water.  <br \/>\nNo one knows which are blessed and which not.<br \/>\nWhoever walks into the fire appears suddenly in the stream.<br \/> <br \/>\nAnd then a head goes under on the water surface, that head <br \/>\npokes out of the fire.  <br \/>\nMost people guard against going into the fire, <br \/>\nand so end up in it.  <br \/>\nThose who love the water of pleasure and make it their devotion <br \/>\nare cheated with this reversal.<br \/>\nThe trickery goes further.  <br \/>\nThe voice of the fire tells the truth saying, &#8220;I am not fire.  <br \/>\nI am fountainhead.  Come into me and don&#8217;t mind the sparks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Rumi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s presence is there in front of me &#8211; a fire on the left, a lovely stream on the right. One group walks toward the fire, into the fire, another toward the sweet flowing water. No one knows which are blessed and which not. Whoever walks into the fire appears suddenly in the stream. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12640,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/12640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}