{"id":1362,"date":"2015-01-04T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2015-01-04T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:24:35","slug":"the-light-behind-the-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/04\/the-light-behind-the-altar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light Behind the Altar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the altar a small candle flickered almost unseen<\/p>\n<p>Its soft light slowly illuminated the figures nearby<\/p>\n<p>Which had previously been hidden<\/p>\n<p>A baby white hidden in its mother\u2019s arms looked at me and whispered<\/p>\n<p><i>Come and See <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Come and See<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the small candle became so bright that it lit up the whole church around me<\/p>\n<p>Docile animals grazed watched by their shepherds and gentle children played in a nearby stream with abandon<\/p>\n<p>People passed me without speaking but I was warmed by the radiance of their love<\/p>\n<p>My vision continued for a number of minutes until it begin to fade<\/p>\n<p>And I was left standing in front of the silent altar<\/p>\n<p>In the declining light of the day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>JT 1926 \u00a0<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the altar a small candle flickered almost unseen Its soft light slowly illuminated the figures nearby Which had previously been hidden A baby white hidden in its mother\u2019s arms looked at me and whispered Come and See Come and See Suddenly the small candle became so bright that it lit up the whole church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}