{"id":1039,"date":"2007-05-08T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2007-05-08T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:41:06","slug":"the_fragrance_of_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"The Fragrance of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You have ravished my heart,<br \/>\nmy sister, my bride,<br \/>\nyou have ravished my heart<br \/>\nwith a glance of your eyes,<br \/>\nwith one jewel of your necklace.<br \/>\n&#8220;How sweet is your love,<br \/>\nmy sister, my bride!<br \/>\nhow much better is your love than wine,<br \/>\nand the fragrance of your oils than any spice!&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>(Song of Songs 4:9-10)<\/em><br \/>\nOh, to be the beloved.  Oh, to receive all that our Lord longs to bestow upon us, His Bride.  To have  but only a taste of that deep, unfathomable love He makes ready for us, His Beloved.  What joy, what rapture, what such unknowing.  I can scarcely understand.  I can hardly comprehend.  I can barely, barely but for a moment &#8211; I am overwhelmed.<br \/>\nIt isn&#8217;t possible, this love, this joy, this peace the Lover of my soul makes known to me.  It is hardly possible that this love is freely given &#8211; You have ravished my heart, and I cannot endure it.  My soul cannot withstand such love, but with only a glance am I devastated.<br \/>\nOh, is it possible?  How is such love possible?  The fragrance of Life to the Full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride, you have ravished my heart with a glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. &#8220;How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride! how much better is your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}