{"id":3662,"date":"2013-05-01T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:51:31","slug":"the-lesson-of-spring-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/2013\/05\/01\/the-lesson-of-spring-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"the lesson of spring soil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“cracked through” Photo by Julia Walsh FSPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/address>\n
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soil slides aside<\/address>\n
allowing an emergence<\/address>\n
flower seed breaks, becoming<\/address>\n
resurrected over the reasons and chances<\/address>\n
that it might not make it<\/address>\n
or shouldn’t come
\nalive it rises, a new life<\/address>\n
a new colorful character in the neighborhood<\/address>\n
sustained by the power of the sun<\/address>\n
Earth knows how to welcome the stranger<\/address>\n
room is made, food provided<\/address>\n
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a warm loving home to the foreigner<\/address>\n
yes to new life, yes to self-sharing<\/address>\n<\/address>\n
praise for Earth knowing and role modeling<\/address>\n
it’s actually quite natural to boldly give<\/address>\n
radical hospitality<\/address>\n
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A crowd prays at a detention center in Illinois, June 2012, blessing a bus as it brings immigrants to the airport to be deported. Photo by Julia Walsh FSPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A bus full of immigrants leaves a detention center in Illinois, June 2012, to bring people to the airport to be deported. Photo by Julia Walsh FSPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 soil slides aside allowing an emergence flower seed breaks, becoming resurrected over the reasons and chances that it might not make it or shouldn’t come alive it rises, a new life a new colorful character in the neighborhood sustained by the power of the sun Earth knows how to welcome the stranger room is...","protected":false},"author":4071079,"featured_media":3670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[115341],"tags":[31297673,434,401,1833,7816,39932,4363,3723,21227,3785,698755382,698755372,1861871,30351,9486],"series":[698756626],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equity-and-justice-equity-and-justice","tag-christain-living","tag-earth","tag-faith","tag-gardening","tag-god","tag-hospitality","tag-immigration","tag-kindness","tag-lessons","tag-love","tag-peacemaking","tag-photography","tag-poetry-2","tag-service","tag-spring","series-messy-jesus-business"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/4678_514507557430_5254200_n.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/customwordpresssites.com\/mjb\/feed\/podcast\/messy-jesus-business","embedCode":"
the lesson of spring soil<\/a><\/blockquote>