{"id":857,"date":"2011-12-01T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=857"},"modified":"2011-12-01T19:32:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:32:19","slug":"de-leau-de-leau-par-simon-parke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;De l&#8217;eau, de l&#8217;eau !&#8217; par Simon Parke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J&#8217;ai tellement entendu d&#8217;histoires \u00e0 propos d&#8217;assoiff\u00e9s \u00e0 la recherche d&#8217;eau. L&#8217;action se d\u00e9roule souvent dans le d\u00e9sert sous une chaleur accablante, histoires abracadabrantes de survie, de catastrophes garanties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;De l&#8217;eau, de l&#8217;eau !&#8221; implore d&#8217;une voix rauque l&#8217;assoiff\u00e9 en rampant sur le sable brulant. &#8220;Il faut que je boive. De l&#8217;eau !&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ce sc\u00e9nario a produit beaucoup d&#8217;histoires m\u00e9morables. Pourtant, c&#8217;est en faisant l&#8217;experience inverse que je me suis d&#8217;abord int\u00e9ress\u00e9 \u00e0 la vie spirituelle : dans cette version, l&#8217;eau est en qu\u00eate d&#8217;assoiff\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Des assoiff\u00e9s !&#8221; hal\u00e8te l&#8217;eau fra\u00eeche qui s&#8217;\u00e9coule librement et en abondance. &#8220;O\u00f9 sont-ils ? Je veux les voir ! Laissez-moi leur donner \u00e0 boire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Quelle variante rafra\u00eechissante d&#8217;un vieux conte.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tir\u00e9\u00a0de &#8216;M\u00e9ditation Minute&#8217; de Simon Parke (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/\">http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>).\u00a0Available from amazon.co.uk (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8216;Water, Water!<\/span>&#8216;\u00a0 by Simon Parke<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard many stories about the thirsty searching for water. Often such tales are set in the sweltering desert &#8211; ripping yarns of endurance beneath the midday sun, frail humans against the elements, no happy ending guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Water, water!&#8221; the thirsty croak, dragging themselves through the boiling sand. &#8220;I need a drink! Water!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This scenario has produced many great stories. Though I first became interested in the spiritual life when I experienced it turned on its head &#8211; a story in which the water searched for the thirsty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thirsty!&#8221; gasps the cool water, flowing full and free. &#8220;Where are they? Show me the thirsty! Let me give them drink!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>What a refreshing twist to an old tale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From: &#8216;One-Minute Mystic&#8217; by Simon Parke (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/\">http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\/<\/a>). Available from amazon.co.uk (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J&#8217;ai tellement entendu d&#8217;histoires \u00e0 propos d&#8217;assoiff\u00e9s \u00e0 la recherche d&#8217;eau. L&#8217;action se d\u00e9roule souvent dans le d\u00e9sert sous une chaleur accablante, histoires abracadabrantes de survie, de catastrophes garanties. &#8220;De l&#8217;eau, de l&#8217;eau !&#8221; implore d&#8217;une voix rauque l&#8217;assoiff\u00e9 en &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=857\">Continue reading <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":{"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-dP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}