{"id":199,"date":"2022-11-04T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:51:00","slug":"what-pent-up-wildness-have-you-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/what-pent-up-wildness-have-you-released\/","title":{"rendered":"What pent up wildness have you released?\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of things that save us. \u00a0Sometimes salvation can come as much from freedom and letting go as from creation. \u00a0What pent up wildness have you released? \u00a0How has that saved you or someone else\u201d -Order of Service, Christmas Eve<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101\">&nbsp;<figcaption><strong>Release<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Solstice, Christmas, New Years. \u00a0All of these holidays turn my introspective self even deeper inwards. \u00a0As I sat in the service Christmas Eve and contemplated the questions above, I was filled with gratitude. \u00a0I was overwhelmed by gratitude. \u00a0I\u2019m not going to lie, it\u2019s been a hard year. \u00a0It\u2019s been a year of feeling everything from despair to ecstasy. \u00a0It\u2019s been a year of giving up things that once were life giving. \u00a0It\u2019s been a year of opening my hands to let things fall apart, flow through and disintegrate. \u00a0And it has been the restructuring and nurturing the new wild imagination that has been ignited in my heart. It has been a year of healing. \u00a0It has been a year of reunion and connection. \u00a0It has been a year of reaching far outside of myself and deep into myself at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>I had a difficult conversation once with my father; one in a string of difficult conversations about faith. \u00a0He wanted to know what I believed about Jesus. \u00a0He wanted to know if I believed Jesus saved me, was the Savior. \u00a0The answer was true for me then and now, but unsatisfying for my father. \u00a0I believe that if we take the teachings and actions of Jesus seriously and model our lives after it, we are saved from many many things. \u00a0Above all, this year has been about bringing myself into greater alignment with the Source of All. \u00a0I have been working and praying and acting with intention to bring forth the unique work that I have been put on earth to carry out. \u00a0It saves me every day, this work. \u00a0It saves my hope and vision for the world, for my children. \u00a0It saves me from giving up in the face of violence, hatred and division. \u00a0I have released my heart into the world and this saves me every day. \u00a0And it breaks me open over and over. \u00a0It brings me to tears in the face of horror and the face of beauty. \u00a0It changes the whole world. \u00a0It changes everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d At Christmas, we celebrate the birth of things that save us. \u00a0Sometimes salvation can come as much from freedom and letting go as from creation. \u00a0What pent up wildness have you released? \u00a0How has that saved you or someone else\u201d -Order of Service, Christmas Eve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}