{"id":1455,"date":"2010-02-19T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T23:01:13","slug":"sending-you-a-gray-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Sending You a Gray Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/cherubs-and-gray-skies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1456\" title=\"cherubs and gray skies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/cherubs-and-gray-skies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is it we send pictures of rainbows, sunsets and blue skies to cheer up a friend?\u00a0 This morning as the gray clouds covered the sun and the barometric pressure dropped as a cold front moved in, I looked out the window and felt a chill in my spine.\u00a0 Somehow it does seem easier to lift our spirits or ease our pain when we feel the sun on our face or focus our attention on the brilliance of color that is abundant in nature.\u00a0 But what about the <em>dark days<\/em> when the vibrant green hues of the trees seem to be listless under a cloak of obscurity?\u00a0 The sky can seem foreboding and our mood sinks as we feel the weight of the clouds on our shoulder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/cherubs-with-yellow-poppy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1457\" title=\"cherubs with yellow poppy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/cherubs-with-yellow-poppy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cherubs-with-yellow-poppy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cherubs-with-yellow-poppy.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>But look again.\u00a0 Go deep into the darkest place on the horizon.\u00a0 There is a stillness present that is clear of judgment or painful memories.\u00a0 Go deeper still and feel the Peace that lies in the center of the coming storm.\u00a0 This place nestled deep inside the shadow of the sky is filled with an emptiness that is ironically abundant with joy and love.\u00a0 Even on a gray day the blossom feels the bliss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it we send pictures of rainbows, sunsets and blue skies to cheer up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}