{"id":744,"date":"2008-08-04T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T08:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2008-08-04T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T08:58:21","slug":"the-passing-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"The passing of a Friend&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I got the news of the sudden passing of a long time friend. It was a peaceful passing, but still surprising and heartbreaking. I was looking for a&nbsp; poem to bring to his service, and I came across one. It certainly suits him, and speaks to Spirit, and how its keeps on after all here is done&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Do not stand at my grave and weep,<br \/>I am not there, I do not sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I am a thousand winds that blow.<br \/>I am the diamond glint on snow.<br \/>I am the sunlight on ripened grain.<br \/>I am the gentle autumn rain.<\/p>\n<p>When you wake in the morning hush,<br \/>I am the swift, uplifting rush <br \/>Of quiet birds in circling flight.<br \/>I am the soft starlight at night.<\/p>\n<p>Do not stand at my grave and weep.<br \/>I am not there, I do not sleep.<br \/>Do not stand at my grave and cry.<br \/>I am not there, I did not die!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ~~~Mary Frye (1932)<\/p>\n<p>Light and Love<\/p>\n<p>Sister Bridget  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I got the news of the sudden passing of a long time friend. It was a peaceful passing, but still surprising and heartbreaking. I was looking for a&nbsp; poem to bring to his service, and I came across one. It certainly suits him, and speaks to Spirit, and how its keeps on after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-odds-than-ends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spellmaker.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}