{"id":161,"date":"2012-04-30T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enumaokoro\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-04-30T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:09:31","slug":"on-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/enumaokoro\/2012\/04\/on-starting\/","title":{"rendered":"On Starting"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<\/p><dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"> <\/dd>\n\n\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photographer unknown)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said, \u201cI\u2019ve been praying for you to find your voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t know how I am threatened by the quiet, by the space that shows up each morning waiting for me to honor it.<\/p>\n<p>You have to trust the lump in your throat, the tightness in your rib cage, the hand in your stomach closing up slow into a fist. 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