{"id":58,"date":"2011-02-18T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2011-02-28T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T04:05:12","slug":"life-changes-it-does-not-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Life changes, it does not end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago today, the lives of a great many people were changed by one single event.\u00a0 While many of us were profoundly saddened by what happened, there were also many who were helped by a profound life gift of life that was given to them.<\/p>\n<p>To all of you who have offered words of support, encouragement, and otherwise showed your love and understanding, I say thank you from the bottom of my heart.\u00a0 Please continue to pray for Erica and her family during the days and months ahead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Many, too, have written and\u00a0said some great things for and about her.\u00a0 Although I was nowhere near as creative or original, here, again, are a few quotes that I shared last Friday at the memorial:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.\u201d &#8211; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJoy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.\u201d &#8211; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from the song, Thousand Cranes, by the jazz band Hiroshima:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Show her now that we do care<br \/>\nwith a love that we all share<br \/>\nsend her a thousand cranes<br \/>\nsend her your thousand cranes<\/p>\n<p>Show her now that we do care<br \/>\nwith a hope that we all share<br \/>\nsend her a thousand cranes<br \/>\nsend her your thousand cranes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago today, the lives of a great many people were changed by one single event.\u00a0 While many of us were profoundly saddened by what happened, there were also many who were helped by a profound life gift of life that was given to them. To all of you who have offered words of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dartband.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}