{"id":998,"date":"2021-05-15T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/?p=998"},"modified":"2021-05-15T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T12:29:38","slug":"longing-for-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/longing-for-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing for Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alone,<br \/>\nWandering in the wilderness,<br \/>\nJust me, my thoughts, and God.<\/p>\n<p>Silence, stillness, away from the \u201cnormal,\u201d<br \/>\nUnknowns in the wilderness<br \/>\nAfraid.<\/p>\n<p>Quiet,<br \/>\nSounds of the wilderness,<br \/>\nGod\u2019s still small voice.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s invitation to be present with Him,<br \/>\nStirrings in the wilderness,<br \/>\nAware.<\/p>\n<p>Resting,<br \/>\nOasis in the wilderness,<br \/>\nDrinking in God\u2019s essences.<\/p>\n<p>Renewed by an encounter with God,<br \/>\nRain in the wilderness,<br \/>\nRestored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone, Wandering in the wilderness, Just me, my thoughts, and God. Silence, stillness, away from the \u201cnormal,\u201d Unknowns in the wilderness Afraid. Quiet, Sounds of the wilderness, God\u2019s still small voice. God\u2019s invitation to be present with Him, Stirrings in the wilderness, Aware. Resting, Oasis in the wilderness, Drinking in God\u2019s essences. Renewed by an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/longing-for-wilderness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Longing for Wilderness&#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":"This poem is some closing thoughts on the Hebrew words midbar and shama \u2013 Longing for Wilderness","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-998","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-g6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}