{"id":7756,"date":"2023-06-01T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T13:28:23","slug":"working-to-remember-my-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=7756","title":{"rendered":"Working to remember “My Prayer”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I woke up feeling utterly unloved and hopeless, in a world where there is no spirit. \u00a0The song in my head is “Diamonds and Rust<\/a>,” Joan Baez’s amazing song about her love affair with Bob Dylan. \u00a0I listened to it recently, but it was a couple of days ago. But yesterday I watched a woman talk about growing up feeling unloved by her estranged father, and after he died finding he had kept her high school photograph and a lock of her hair. \u00a0She realized she had always been loved<\/a>, and it changed her life. I’m so jealous of her, because she found evidence<\/span>. Never happened to me. This morning I’m feeling about as unloved and unlovable as I ever have in my life.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t get “Diamonds and Rust” out of my head, and I remembered I had a prayer to say when I was feeling bleak. Don’t remember when I stopped doing that, but I knew it was in my blog, so I looked it up. It’s called My Prayer\/Vision<\/a>. I wrote it down to help me relearn it.<\/p>\n

“I choose to trust that the wider, more inclusive, participatory, sacred cosmos is alive and intelligent and works with us to create a better world for all.” That’s the shortest version and easier to remember. It’s interesting that it went through several stages, which I describe in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had finished writing this, saved it, previewed it, might have posted it, but I saw that I had email. There was something from the Daily Good that is SO APPROPRIATE. It’s called “A Primordial Covenant of Relationship<\/a>” By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. He says:<\/p>\n

This is the story of our time, this story of forgetfulness, this story of unraveling. Because the heart of the climate crisis is not a crisis of emissions\u2014it\u2019s not even a crisis of capitalism and greed. Those are all expressions of what happens when we lose the most essential nature of a connection, a relationship that has existed since time immemorial\u2014the sacred connection between us, as human beings, and the living Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I woke up feeling utterly unloved and hopeless, in a world where there is no spirit. \u00a0The song in my head is “Diamonds and Rust,” Joan Baez’s amazing song about her love affair with Bob Dylan. \u00a0I listened … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-present-day","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}