{"id":7047,"date":"2004-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/7047-oh-holy-night-a-childrens-wonderland-and-tree-trimming-party-at-prana"},"modified":"2004-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T08:00:00","slug":"oh-holy-night-a-childrens-wonderland-and-tree-trimming-party-at-prana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/7047-oh-holy-night-a-childrens-wonderland-and-tree-trimming-party-at-prana","title":{"rendered":"“Oh Holy Night” \u2014 A Children’s Wonderland and Tree Trimming Party at Prana"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Article Click here to view a photo slideshow from the Service Day & Children’s Christmas Wonderland at Prana<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

Click here to view a photo slideshow from the Tree Trimming Party at Prana<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

It’s Sunday, December 5th, and I’m volunteering at Prana’s Service Day to decorate Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens for Christmas. From 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. we are having what could become another annual Christmas festivity — the Children’s Wonderland — in our new and spacious dining room. We are also preparing for Prana’s annual Tree Trimming Party which will begin at 4:00 p.m. <\/p>\n

The Children’s Wonderland is amazing. Many activities are taking place including: a storybook corner, various ornament crafts with a photo taken of the child and the ornament they make (and yes, even some of us big kids get to do one), a cooking area where children make no-bake fudge balls to later be served on the spectacular buffet spread in the formal dining and reception room. With all of this going on, you can barely hear a peep. Each child is enjoying their own project and their own brand of peace. I have to leave the kitchen, (my usual volunteer headquarters) to get a good look see. It reminds me of “and a child shall lead them.” The joyful contentment in the hearts of these children creates a silent, warm, floating energy of peace. The Holy Spirit sweeps through the entire dining room with Christmas glee. While I’m here, I order myself one of the finest latt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Sunday, December 5th, and I’m volunteering at Prana’s Service Day to decorate Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens for Christmas. From 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. we are having what could become another annual Christmas festivity — the Children’s Wonderland — in our new and spacious dining room. We are also preparing for Prana’s annual Tree Trimming Party which will begin at 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":86999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndh-archives","tag-prana"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}