{"id":111680,"date":"2023-10-04T16:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T23:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=111680"},"modified":"2023-10-05T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:09:04","slug":"a-poem-about-my-living-in-grace-retreat-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/111680-a-poem-about-my-living-in-grace-retreat-experience","title":{"rendered":"A Poem About My Living in Grace Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bailey shared this poem with the New Day Herald about his experience at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/events\/e\/livingingrace\">Living In Grace<\/a> retreat:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a week strangers share jokes and come into a deeper awareness of gratitude, loving and forgiveness.<br \/>\nLight plays on the surface of water on the beach. Waves kiss the sand in rhythmic motion like the sound current.<br \/>\nGrace occurs in unlikely moments. In the sharing of our deepest inadequacies, blame and shame. In our turning away from the light only to remember again, we never left.<br \/>\nAnd we hold each other fast against being whipsawed<br \/>\nfrom the struggles of our time.<\/p>\n<p>Loving leans towards living<br \/>\nAnd, while we all have our individual expiration dates which claims all things at the end,<br \/>\nThere are these precious times between,<br \/>\nIn which everything is radiant<br \/>\nAnd we loved, again, ourselves, each other, this world and our connection to God<\/p>\n<p>Peter Bailey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bailey shared this poem with the New Day Herald about his experience at the Living In Grace retreat: In a week strangers share jokes and come into a deeper awareness of gratitude, loving and forgiveness. Light plays on the surface of water on the beach. 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