{"id":768,"date":"2011-11-04T17:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=768"},"modified":"2011-11-04T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T16:55:05","slug":"la-chandelle-par-simon-parke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"‘La Chandelle’ par Simon Parke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perdu au milieu d’une pluie int\u00e9rieure torrentielle, balay\u00e9 par des rafales de vent, dans les plus sombres recoins de mon \u00e2me d\u00e9tremp\u00e9e, j’ai \u00e9t\u00e9 surpris, puis \u00e9merveill\u00e9, puis stup\u00e9fi\u00e9, de d\u00e9couvrir une chandelle allum\u00e9e.<\/em><\/p>\n

Je ne l’avais pas allum\u00e9e ou prot\u00e9g\u00e9e de l’ond\u00e9e, car j’ignorais m\u00eame son existence. C’\u00e9tait juste une chandelle que j’avais d\u00e9couverte, qui br\u00fblait sans se soucier de l’agitation autour.<\/em><\/p>\n

C’\u00e9tait un signe m’indiquant o\u00f9 \u00e9tait ma maison, un signe qui me guidait pour y revenir,<\/em><\/p>\n

comme une lumi\u00e8re sous le porche accueillant un voyageur fourbu.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tir\u00e9 de ‘M\u00e9ditation Minute’ par Simon Parke (http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>). Disponible d’amazon.co.uk (http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

‘(The Candle) In the Darkest Undergrowth’:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Amid the torrential rain within, and the jerky gusts of wind, in the darkest undergrowth of my sodden soul, I was surprised and then amazed and then stunned to find a candle burning.<\/em><\/p>\n

This was not a candle I had lit or knew of; nor had I protected it against the downpour. It was just a candle I discovered, burning away without a care in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a home sign, a sign of coming home –<\/em><\/p>\n

like a light in the porch greeting a weary traveller.<\/em><\/p>\n

From ‘One-Minute Mystic’ by Simon parke (http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>). Available on amazon.co.uk (http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perdu au milieu d’une pluie int\u00e9rieure torrentielle, balay\u00e9 par des rafales de vent, dans les plus sombres recoins de mon \u00e2me d\u00e9tremp\u00e9e, j’ai \u00e9t\u00e9 surpris, puis \u00e9merveill\u00e9, puis stup\u00e9fi\u00e9, de d\u00e9couvrir une chandelle allum\u00e9e. Je ne l’avais pas allum\u00e9e ou … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[32],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}