{"id":4549,"date":"2026-02-09T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=4549"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:53:51","slug":"for-or-against-waves","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/for-or-against-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"For or against waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When, instead of being gently rocked,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">we&#8217;re knocked sideways by private or<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">global storms, it&#8217;s easy to lose our true<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">sense of direction and feel abandoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But even as we struggle, far from shore,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">fearful and confused, sometimes, when<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">we need it most, we may detect a faint<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">glimmer of light near the horizon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that will not take us away from danger,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">pain or darkness, but might lift us up<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">so that we can ride a little higher<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">above life&#8217;s turbulence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the mysterious figure was revealed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">as human and moved towards us,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">we remembered the Spirit who danced<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">over the waters at the dawn of time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>When, instead of being gently rocked, we&#8217;re knocked sideways by private or global storms, it&#8217;s easy to lose our true sense of direction and feel abandoned. But even as we struggle, far from shore, fearful and confused, sometimes, when we need it most, we may detect a faint glimmer of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/for-or-against-waves\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For or against waves<\/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-4549","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\/4549","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=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4549\/revisions\/4659"}],"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=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}