{"id":4547,"date":"2026-02-09T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=4547"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:59:14","slug":"sudden-storm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/sudden-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Prot\u00e9gez moi, Seigneur; ma barque<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>est si petite et votre mer est si grande.*<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wind blows down between the hills,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">strengthening as it swoops onto the lake.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The sleeper doesn&#8217;t stir and as water fills<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">our lurching boat, still he doesn&#8217;t wake.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We&#8217;ve fought to save ourselves: the sail<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">is reefed, each struggles to hold an oar<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">as water cascades over us; if we fail<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">to steady the boat, we cannot reach the shore.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We&#8217;re overwhelmed, how can you sleep in peace?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Master, wake up; we perish! Don&#8217;t you care?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One word from you can bid the tempest cease<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">and be the answer to our earnest prayer:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Save us, good Lord, from this deluge<br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>our boat is tiny and your ocean huge.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>* Old Breton fishermen&#8217;s prayer.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Segoe UI;\">\u00a9<\/span> Alwyn Marriage 2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prot\u00e9gez moi, Seigneur; ma barque est si petite et votre mer est si grande.* Wind blows down between the hills, strengthening as it swoops onto the lake. The sleeper doesn&#8217;t stir and as water fills our lurching boat, still he doesn&#8217;t wake. We&#8217;ve fought to save ourselves: the sail is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/sudden-storm\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sudden storm<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4538,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4547\/revisions\/4669"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}