{"id":1596,"date":"2018-09-12T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T03:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2018-09-12T22:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T03:37:57","slug":"when-i-close-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"When I close my eyes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here in this place a veil is drawn, there is so much we don’t see when our eyes are open, but what about when they are closed?<\/p>\n

Oh my Lord, I pray that when I close my eyes the darkness surrounding me is the protective darkness of the hem of our Blessed Mother’s mantle.<\/p>\n

For here, hidden in the hem of her mantle,\u00a0Mary’s feet will crush the head of any serpent that ensnares\u00a0me, Mary’s words and teachings will soak into my ears, my heart, my soul, and knowing that Mary remains lovingly and faithfully near her Son always, I too will be near her sweet and precious Son, our Savior – Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n

Close your eyes and let us crawl to the\u00a0feet of our Blessed Mother and\u00a0hide in the protective darkness of her mantle!<\/p>\n

Luke 1:45
\nBlessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here in this place a veil is drawn, there is so much we don’t see when our eyes are open, but what about when they are closed? Oh my Lord, I pray that when I close my eyes the darkness … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,7,131],"tags":[54,300,1088,67,1500,2420,2416,1265,651,128,214,92,465,2419,1047,934,1503,15,1455,55,297,2412,802,2417,2413,822,1765,53,12,163,51,10,2061,2415,1080,2364,2414,666,1351,2418,1186,338,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-blessings","category-faith","category-grace","tag-best","tag-blessed","tag-blessed-mother","tag-christ","tag-close","tag-closed","tag-crush","tag-darkness","tag-eye","tag-eyes","tag-feet","tag-god","tag-head","tag-hem","tag-hidden","tag-hide","tag-holy-spirit","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-christ","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-mantle","tag-mary","tag-marys-feet-will-crush-the-head-of-the-serpent","tag-marys-mantle","tag-mother","tag-mother-of-god","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-open","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-protection","tag-protective","tag-saint-mary","tag-serpent","tag-teaching","tag-teachings","tag-veil","tag-when-i-close-my-eyes","tag-word","tag-words","tag-your","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bernadac","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}