{"id":1632,"date":"2023-06-25T21:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T21:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2023-06-25T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T21:24:49","slug":"jousting-with-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/jousting-with-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Jousting with Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jousting-with-Clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1633 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jousting-with-Clouds.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jousting-with-Clouds-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jousting-with-Clouds-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jousting-with-Clouds-768x768.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/1024;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I often ask for short stories or imagery as a guide for spiritual development, somehow they seem deeper and more meaningful than instructions, for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jousting with Clouds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The image starts with being on a horse on a cloudy field, gold banner in hand, galloping like fury to do battle. As the clouds begin to thin, I see I&#8217;m galloping toward a cliff, nothing more. I ride to the edge of the cliff, and on the other side I see a tribe of beautiful people, dressed in pure white robes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As a flash, I recognize them as my dear brothers, all, and I long to be amongst them. But, how can I reach them? Leaping across the chasm is the only option I can think of, with fear and despair next up as my imagination wildly projects plummeting to death.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But my heart swells with pure love from and for my brothers, and I am shockingly transported across &#8211; simply, before there, now here &#8211; weeping joyfully in my home com<\/em>ing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this vignette, I recognize the mad, mindless chase which we think of as life &#8211; banner (cause) at the fore, racing full-throated at, what? On the other side of the clouds I see death, but if I would stop and slow down, peer beyond the clouds, I could see my brothers on the other side, and be home. Not by my means, but by love&#8217;s grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often ask for short stories or imagery as a guide for spiritual development, somehow they seem deeper and more meaningful than instructions, for me. Jousting with Clouds The image starts with being on a horse on a cloudy field, gold banner in hand, galloping like fury to do battle. As the clouds begin to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[74,195],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-a-course-in-miracles","tag-life-metaphor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5startimes.com\/cjsalvar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}