{"id":53660,"date":"2021-06-09T20:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T02:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=53660"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T15:22:41","slug":"messianic-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=53660","title":{"rendered":"Messianic Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane and the Shadow Mountain Moon<\/p>\n<p>Endless Messiah Contemplation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Water rippled by trade Winds, an endless path<\/p>\n<p>Travels up, up into the clear blue Sky. Made fresh,<\/p>\n<p>Land its Plants, its Animals drink and live.<\/p>\n<p>Ancient, received not made here, one of the four<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Land. Made by Pele as Plates shift, restless, find fire.<\/p>\n<p>Islands alone, contemplating restless creation, recreation.<\/p>\n<p>Land loosens, sifts, smooths, ground fine. Sand.<\/p>\n<p>A place not only Land, not only Water. The Shore.<\/p>\n<p>Like our bodies between our souls and eternity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trade Wind. Faithful, gentle, dependable.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet Messiah who reveals the unseen&#8217;s power<\/p>\n<p>Who moves the Palm and the Monkey Pod Tree<\/p>\n<p>And lifts the Water into white pregnant Clouds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No slouching toward Bethlehem. No complicated timing.<\/p>\n<p>Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.\u00a0 Those who need them.<\/p>\n<p>The Messianic times come round through the heat of the Sun,<\/p>\n<p>The turning of the Earth, and the long pilgrimage of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane and the Shadow Mountain Moon Endless Messiah Contemplation &nbsp; Water rippled by trade Winds, an endless path Travels up, up into the clear blue Sky. Made fresh, Land its Plants, its Animals drink and live. Ancient, received not made here, one of the four &nbsp; This Land. Made by Pele as Plates shift, restless, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=53660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Messianic Times<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4392,4381,4329,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","category-judaism","category-plants","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53671,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53660\/revisions\/53671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}