{"id":409,"date":"2008-04-15T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2008-04-15T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T15:44:09","slug":"where-mourning-and-dancing-touch-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/where-mourning-and-dancing-touch-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Where mourning and dancing touch each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA friend reminded me of this wonderful thought by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrinouwen.org\/\">Henri Nouwen<\/a> this morning. I have read it before but in light of recent events it feels far more profound, and far more comforting:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nWhere Mourning and Dancing Touch Each Other\r\n\r\n\"[There is] a time for mourning, a time for dancing\" (Ecclesiastes 3:4). \r\nBut mourning and dancing are never fully separated. Their \"times\" do not \r\nnecessarily follow each other. In fact, their \"times\" may become one \"time.\" \r\nMourning may turn into dancing and dancing into mourning without showing \r\na clear point where one ends and the other starts.\r\n\r\nOften our grief allows us to choreograph our dance while our dance creates \r\nthe space for our grief. We lose a beloved friend, and in the midst of our \r\ntears we discover an unknown joy. We celebrate a success, and in the midst \r\nof the party we feel deep sadness. Mourning and dancing, grief and laughter, \r\nsadness and gladness - they belong together as the sad-faced clown and the \r\nhappy-faced clown, who make us both cry and laugh. Let's trust that the \r\nbeauty of our lives becomes visible where mourning and dancing touch each\r\nother.\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8230; thank you Sarah \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend reminded me of this wonderful thought by Henri Nouwen this morning. I have read it before but in light of recent events it feels far more profound, and far more comforting: Where Mourning and Dancing Touch Each Other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/where-mourning-and-dancing-touch-each-other\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}