{"id":47,"date":"2021-10-14T04:42:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/meditations-love-on-the-brink\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:26:47","slug":"meditations-love-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/meditations-love-on-the-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditations &#8211; Love on the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"47\" class=\"elementor elementor-47\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-46f77917 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"46f77917\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-315d494f\" data-id=\"315d494f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e53a18b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e53a18b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Meditations<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-343a070d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"343a070d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>We are spirits having a human experience. Often in our humanness we make choices, not wrong, but which get us tied up in knots that divert us from a smoother flowing life experience. When we make choices from fear or well intended advice that we erroneously trust more than we trust our own soul we waste our soul\u2019s precious time on earth: A marriage because Mom thought he was the right man for you. A job that drains your life force, which you accepted because you believed nothing better would come.<\/p><p>The poet Jean Valentine said, \u201c<em>Blessed are they who know that what they now have, they once longed for.<\/em>\u201d We cast a line like a fisherman and reel ourselves toward the hook. But who is the \u201cI\u201d who cast that line? Was it the voice of fear, of duty that lacks delight, of the concerns of someone else, of a childhood assumption? Blessed are they who know who is the one who casts the line.\u00a0<\/p><hr style=\"width: 100%; clear: both; visibility: hidden;\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c920c1\" data-id=\"8c920c1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-821da86 elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"821da86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;motion_fx_motion_fx_scrolling&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateY_effect&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_translateY_speed&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:1.5,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;motion_fx_translateY_affectedRange&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:{&quot;start&quot;:0,&quot;end&quot;:100}},&quot;motion_fx_devices&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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Often in our humanness we make choices, not wrong, but which get us tied up in knots that divert us from a smoother flowing life experience. When we make choices from fear or well intended advice that we erroneously trust more than we trust our own soul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/house-of-freedom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}