{"id":12775,"date":"2014-07-14T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12775"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:07:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:07:32","slug":"fill-me-with-your-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=12775","title":{"rendered":"Fill Me With Your Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asecretdevotion.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/light.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" ilo-full-src=\"https:\/\/asecretdevotion.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/light.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-800\" src=\"https:\/\/asecretdevotion.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/light.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" alt=\"light\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jessica: Oh, Govinda, I long for only You<br \/>\nas only You fill my heart with a light<br \/>\nlike the rising sun stretching<br \/>\nfrom one corner to the next;<br \/>\nIlluminating the dark recesses of my soul-<br \/>\nonce cold and numb, inflicted by wounds<br \/>\nfrom this material world, now only filled with<br \/>\nthe ecstasy of turning my eyes towards You.<br \/>\nYour beautiful form makes tears like autumn showers<br \/>\nfall, and I let them, unashamed. I\u2019m compelled to<br \/>\ncup them in my hands and raise them up towards You<br \/>\nas offerings of my devotion.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a lover caught in the throes of passion for<br \/>\nall I can think of is the intoxicating joy that meditating<br \/>\non Your Names brings me and all that I am consumed<br \/>\nwith is my desire to show you my affection.<br \/>\nI walk amidst fields of wildflowers and pick You the most<br \/>\nbeautiful ones while singing Your names and feeling<br \/>\nthe wind that You bring pass gently through my hair.<br \/>\nThe playful joy of inhibition overwhelms me as<br \/>\nI care not what others think while I make gestures<br \/>\nof adoration to the One who has captured<br \/>\nmy heart in His net of mercy.<\/p>\n<p>I kneel down beside the weary who come along my path,<br \/>\nthe aged, sick and tired- those whose hearts have known the brokenness<br \/>\nthat has defined mine for so long and still at times plagues me.<br \/>\nI seek to serve them with love,<br \/>\nknowing that by serving them I am serving You.<br \/>\nI pray that You give me the strength and discernment to shine<br \/>\nthe light I discover inward outwards onto this material world.<br \/>\nHelp me be Your instrument and fill me with Your song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asecretdevotion.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/13\/fill-me-with-your-song-a-poem\/\">https:\/\/asecretdevotion.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/13\/fill-me-with-your-song-a-poem\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" ilo-full-src=\"https:\/\/asecretdevotion.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/light.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-800\" src=\"https:\/\/asecretdevotion.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/light.jpg?w=300&amp;h=225\" alt=\"light\" height=\"225\" width=\"300\">Jessica:  Oh, Govinda, I long for only you as only you fill my heart with a light like the rising sun stretching from one corner to the next;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13442,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions\/13442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}