{"id":1372,"date":"2024-03-07T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2024-02-19T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:46:13","slug":"grateful-for-courage-of-artist-john-roedel-and-his-poem-the-places-in-our-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/blog\/grateful-for-courage-of-artist-john-roedel-and-his-poem-the-places-in-our-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful for courage of artist John Roedel&#8230; and his poem, &#8220;the places in our heart&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/5-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"Image of candles and quote about resilience by John Roedel\" class=\"wp-image-1361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/5-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/5-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/5.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Honoring Resilience&#8221;  by John Roedel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>the places in our heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>where the world took bites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>out of us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>may never fully heal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; and will likely become open spaces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>be careful to not fill them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with just anything or anyone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>your wounds aren\u2019t supposed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to become attics for you to hoard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unnecessary junk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>these holes in our hearts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are holy sites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and we should treat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;them as such<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so when visiting your old wounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>make sure to take your shoes off<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and turn off your cellphone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sit by candlelight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; and watch how the shadows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tell the story how brave you are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~ to survive<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, John Roedel,  for permission to use your poem in the ThankU.io gratitude platform.  For more poems by John Roedel, please visit:  https:\/\/www.johnroedel.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the places in our heart where the world took bites out of us may never fully heal &nbsp; and will likely become open spaces be careful to not fill them with just anything or anyone your wounds aren\u2019t supposed to become attics for you to hoard unnecessary junk these holes in our hearts are holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[67,19,68,69],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/5.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thanku.io\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}