IN THESE TIMES<\/p>\n
In these times we weave<\/p>\n
The fabric of love<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n With phone calls far and near;<\/p>\n In smiles for strangers<\/p>\n As we pass, keeping<\/p>\n And staying six feet apart <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We weave the design of love<\/span><\/p>\n In prayers and thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n For all those in distress;<\/span><\/p>\n For the many souls who cross,<\/p>\n Alone, through the gate of death\u2026<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Is this what the virus wants?<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n In these times we have the chance<\/p>\n To strengthen our souls<\/p>\n To take advantage of quiet time,<\/p>\n Break that habit of touching the face;<\/span><\/p>\n Stepping back to evaluate \u2013 <\/span><\/p>\n What exactly is it that I, alone,<\/span><\/p>\n Can bring to this world?<\/p>\n Is this what the virus wants?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In these times I\u2019d say,<\/span><\/p>\n Rather, it\u2019s what the angels and archangels,<\/p>\n All the company of heaven,<\/span><\/p>\n Want, as they work and strive and toil to turn<\/p>\n Our pain and suffering towards the Good,<\/p>\n Towards right evolution of our <\/span><\/p>\n Damaged, threatened earth?<\/p>\n In these day we recognize<\/p>\n The rightness of rhythm; <\/span><\/p>\n How we can be helped and carried<\/p>\n By differentiating the days<\/p>\n Of the week,<\/p>\n Connect with the colour,<\/p>\n The grain, the stone, <\/span><\/p>\n The task of the 8-fold path.<\/p>\n Thus we learn to survive<\/span><\/p>\n To live more consciously, more morally<\/p>\n Again and again and again<\/p>\n In these times. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Brenda Hammond<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IN THESE TIMES In these times we weave The fabric of love With phone calls far and near; In smiles for strangers As we pass, keeping And staying six feet apart \u00a0 \u00a0 We weave the design of love In prayers and thoughts For all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}