{"id":995,"date":"2021-05-09T12:42:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2021-05-15T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T12:29:28","slug":"true-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/true-north\/","title":{"rendered":"True North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I step out into the world each day \u2013 Where do I go?<br \/>\nDo I turn right or left, go forwards or back \u2013 Where do I go?<br \/>\nI Do not know.<\/p>\n<p>I am lost in a sea of options,<br \/>\nMy internal compass spins and is of no help.<br \/>\nI am unable to hear True North.<\/p>\n<p>I am consumed by the todo list, a list that seems to be out of control,<br \/>\nA list rummaging around in my head.<br \/>\nHow do I hear True North again?<\/p>\n<p>The list dictates what I do, whether I want to or not.<br \/>\nIn my doing, my true desire is diluted with the trivial.<br \/>\nWhy does True North not cry out to me?<\/p>\n<p>I am lost in my doing, not in simply being.<br \/>\nBeing present to True North, being present to others.<br \/>\nThis is why I can not hear True North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe still and know that I am God\u201d, I am True North.<br \/>\nFind My voice, not in the whirlwinds of life, but in the stillness of your life.<br \/>\nMy \u201cstill small voice\u201d is crying out to you, you must find the space to listen.<\/p>\n<p>I Am, ignite in me once again my desire to draw close to you.<br \/>\nLet me hear Your invitation to be still and be present with you.<br \/>\nTrue North is always with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I step out into the world each day \u2013 Where do I go? Do I turn right or left, go forwards or back \u2013 Where do I go? I Do not know. I am lost in a sea of options, My internal compass spins and is of no help. I am unable to hear True &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/true-north\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;True North&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,33,11,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knowing-god","category-poetry","category-prayer","category-random-thoughts","category-spiritual-formation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZq6-g3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}