{"id":142304,"date":"2025-12-31T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142304"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:38:41","slug":"w-h-auden-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142304","title":{"rendered":"W H Auden for Christmas&#8211;&#8216;we pray that, following Him, we may depart from our anxiety into His peace&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And because of His visitation, we may no longer desire God as if He were lacking: our redemption is no longer a question of pursuit but of surrender to Him who is always and everywhere present. Therefore at every moment we pray that, following Him, we may depart from our anxiety into His peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;From Simeon in the Christmas Oratorio<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Philippe de Champaigne, The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca.1640 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LatSDghLD3\">pic.twitter.com\/LatSDghLD3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Solas (@solas_na_greine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solas_na_greine\/status\/1999434726717948207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And because of His visitation, we may no longer desire God as if He were lacking: our redemption is no longer a question of pursuit but of surrender to Him who is always and everywhere present. Therefore at every moment<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142304\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142307,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142304\/revisions\/142307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}