{"id":1669,"date":"2021-09-01T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2021-09-01T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:43:35","slug":"lost-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/lost-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A year and a half, nearly two years –
\nand we continue to wrestle with lost time.
\nHow have we filled our hours
\nand days
\nand months?<\/p>\n

Has fear divorced us
\nfrom our neighbors?
\nIsolated us
\nfrom our friends?
\nQuarantined us
\nfrom the world
\nso much so
\nthat\u00a0we refuse to live?
\nHave we marked time\u00a0with
\nresentment
\nfear
\nanxiety
\nand the troubled\u00a0anguish
\nof our souls?<\/p>\n

Let us instead
\nopen ourselves
\nto the time allotted to us,
\nacknowledge\u00a0each day as
\na gift to unwrap
\na challenge to meet
\na promise to be kept.<\/p>\n

Let us open ourselves
\nto the cosmos
\nthe wind,
\nthe raspy pollen,
\nthe green of burgeoning life,
\nthe gray of life expended,
\nand devote ourselves
\nto the untamed spaces
\nwithin<\/p>\n

Let us unearth
\nthe faceted layers
\nof\u00a0our souls,
\nconfront \u00a0our fears,
\nand dare to follow
\nwhere\u00a0the Spirit beckons.<\/p>\n

This time need not be lost.
\nRather,
\nlet us embrace
\nas possibility
\nwhat once we\u00a0ignored,
\ndiscover our uncharted hearts
\nand\u00a0the hidden wealth\u00a0of \u00a0wisdom
\nwe unknowingly possess.<\/p>\n

This is an invitation for us
\nto live deeply
\nto honor our losses
\nwhile choosing to live.
\nThis is an invitation
\nto grasp life’s energy
\nwith both hands
\nto embrace
\nto challenge
\nto drink the nectar
\nof the Sacred sap
\nflowing in our bones,
\npulsing in the stars,
\nand thrumming\u00a0in the veins
\nof our holy, holy world.<\/p>\n

Come with me
\nto places
\nnot\u00a0confined
\nby this disease
\nand let us explore
\nthe boundless terrain
\nof our souls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A year and a half, nearly two years – and we continue to wrestle with lost time. How have we filled our hours and days and months? Has fear divorced us from our neighbors? Isolated us from our friends? Quarantined us from the world so much so that\u00a0we refuse to live? Have we marked time\u00a0with … Continue reading Lost Time<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5,13,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}