{"id":144645,"date":"2026-04-20T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144645"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:03:23","slug":"more-poetry-for-easter-pieta-by-madeleine-lengle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144645","title":{"rendered":"More Poetry for Easter\u2013Pieta by Madeleine L\u2019engle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The disciples found the truth hard to believe.<br>There had to be breaking bread, eating fish,<br>before they, too, even Thomas, were lit with<br>joyfulness. Not much was said about me.<br>I said good-bye to the son I carried within me<br>for nine months, nursed, fed, taught to walk.<br>On Friday when they took him down from the cross,<br>I held the son I knew,<br>recognizing him in my arms,<br>and never saw him again,<br>not my body\u2019s child. How could I laugh, weep tears<br>of joy?\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deaconbob94.org\/?m=202204\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/easter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#easter<\/a> morning holy cross sullivans island <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/southcarolina?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#southcarolina<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lowcountrylife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lowcountrylife<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/easter2026?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#easter2026<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/anglican?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#anglican<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/parishministry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#parishministry<\/a> The Lord is risen indeed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fcloK8g65E\">pic.twitter.com\/fcloK8g65E<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/2040758054782636311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disciples found the truth hard to believe.There had to be breaking bread, eating fish,before they, too, even Thomas, were lit withjoyfulness. Not much was said about me.I said good-bye to the son I carried within mefor nine months, nursed,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144645\">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":[571,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144645","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=144645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144647,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144645\/revisions\/144647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}