{"id":4586,"date":"2026-02-09T18:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/?page_id=4586"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:54:36","slug":"from-darkness-to-light","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/from-darkness-to-light\/","title":{"rendered":"From darkness to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If they had found your body in that place<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">of death, they might have lingered there.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Instead, they discovered an absence that<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">shattered expectations and challenged them<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">to raise their eyes to the light of new reality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When, as is sometimes bound to happen,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">we enter our dark places and fail to find<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">you there, help us to trust it is because<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">you have gone on ahead and are now<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">beckoning us to follow into greater light.<\/span><\/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>If they had found your body in that place of death, they might have lingered there. Instead, they discovered an absence that shattered expectations and challenged them to raise their eyes to the light of new reality. When, as is sometimes bound to happen, we enter our dark places and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/mmac-paintings\/from-darkness-to-light\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From darkness to light<\/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-4586","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\/4586","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=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4586\/revisions\/4660"}],"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=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}