{"id":1571,"date":"2024-03-09T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:20:13","slug":"broken-crayons-still-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1571","title":{"rendered":"Broken Crayons Still Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Jill Bottum<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Written during Meeting with inspiration from speakers)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do I rise out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of this pain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I must find&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">within me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">guiding me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">out of my suffering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">along a fresh path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I must breathe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the fullness of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">back into my<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">soul,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">let the breath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sooth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my pain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">until I can see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the way;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">allow my broken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spirit to color<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the path<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">back to where<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am bathed in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the Healing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">light&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">love&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and joy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from others&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">when added to my own<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">will render me whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written during meeting with inspiration from vocal ministry speakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-131","category-march-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}