{"id":254793,"date":"2024-02-19T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=254793"},"modified":"2024-02-15T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T06:15:18","slug":"the-truelove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/02\/the-truelove\/","title":{"rendered":"The TrueLove"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a faith in loving fiercely
\nthe one who is rightfully yours,
\nespecially if you have
\nwaited years and especially
\nif part of you never believed
\nyou could deserve this
\nloved and beckoning hand
\nheld out to you this way.<\/p>\n

I am thinking of faith now
\nand the testaments of loneliness
\nand what we feel we are
\nworthy of in this world.<\/p>\n

Years ago in the Hebrides,
\nI remember an old man
\nwho walked every morning
\non the grey stones
\nto the shore of baying seals,
\nwho would press his hat
\nto his chest in the blustering
\nsalt wind and say his prayer
\nto the turbulent Jesus
\nhidden in the water,<\/p>\n

and I think of the story
\nof the storm and everyone
\nwaking and seeing
\nthe distant
\nyet familiar figure
\nfar across the water
\ncalling to them<\/p>\n

and how we are all
\npreparing for that
\nabrupt waking,
\nand that calling,
\nand that moment
\nwe have to say yes,
\nexcept it will
\nnot come so grandly
\nso Biblically
\nbut more subtly
\nand intimately in the face
\nof the one you know
\nyou have to love<\/p>\n

so that when
\nwe finally step out of the boat
\ntoward them, we find
\neverything holds
\nus, and everything confirms
\nour courage, and if you wanted
\nto drown you could,
\nbut you don\u2019t
\nbecause finally
\nafter all this struggle
\nand all these years
\nyou simply don\u2019t want to
\nany more
\nyou\u2019ve simply had enough
\nof drowning
\nand you want to live and you
\nwant to love and you will
\nwalk across any territory
\nand any darkness
\nhowever fluid and however
\ndangerous to take the
\none hand you know
\nbelongs in yours.<\/p>\n

____________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>David Whyte is an Anglo-Irish poet. He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on “the conversational nature of reality”. His book, <\/em>The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, topped the best-seller charts in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a faith in loving fiercely
\nthe one who is rightfully yours,
\nespecially if you have
\nwaited years and especially…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":254794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1177,2553,868,805],"class_list":["post-254793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-inspirational","tag-love","tag-poetry","tag-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254795,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254793\/revisions\/254795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}