{"id":494,"date":"2006-07-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/07\/where-do-you-find-rest.html"},"modified":"2006-07-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"where-do-you-find-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/07\/where-do-you-find-rest.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Do <em>You <\/em>Find Rest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>When despair for the world grows in me<br \/>and I wake in the night at the least sound<br \/>in fear of what my life and my children\u2019s life may be,<br \/>I go and lie down where the wood drake<br \/>rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.<br \/>I come into the peace of wild things<br \/>who do not tax their lives with forethought<br \/>of grief. 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