{"id":3856,"date":"2020-11-22T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2020-12-23T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:00:45","slug":"the-light-meets-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/the-light-meets-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light Meets the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The morning after that horrible X-ray on July 29 I realized I was singing, &#8220;Light of the world, you stepped out into darkness.  Open my eyes let me see.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/11-1-38-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/11-1-38-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/11-1-38-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/11-1-38-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/11-1-38-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/11-1-38.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That theme of light into darkness has come back to me over and over, but especially these past few months.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today the words of &#8220;This is where the healing begins,&#8221; by Tenth Avenue North continue to run through my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is where the healing begins, oh<br>This is where the healing starts<br>When you come to where you&#8217;re broken within<br>The light meets the dark<br>The light meets the darkSparks will fly as grace collides<br>With the dark inside of us<br>So please don&#8217;t fight<br>This coming light<br>Let this blood come cover us<br>His blood can cover us<br>This is where the healing begins, oh<br>This is where the healing starts<br>When you come to where you&#8217;re broken within<br>The light meets the dark<br>The light meets the dark&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning after that horrible X-ray on July 29 I realized I was singing, &#8220;Light of the world, you stepped out into darkness. Open my eyes let me see.&#8221; That&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39ynQ-10c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}