{"id":5974,"date":"2024-06-04T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=5974"},"modified":"2024-05-24T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T15:13:53","slug":"john-odonohue-on-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/john-odonohue-on-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"John O&#8217;Donohue on Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5975\" style=\"width:608px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-850x1133.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ST-Canice-Cathedral-Graveyard-Kilkenny-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">St. Canice Cathedral Graveyard, Kilkenny, Ireland \u00a9CindyThomson2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>John O&#8217;Donohue is best known for his book,\u00a0<strong><em>Anam Cara, A Book of Celtic Wisdom<\/em><\/strong>. He was a poet, philosopher, and scholar&#8211;from the back cover of the book. O&#8217;Donohue died\u00a0unexpectedly\u00a0in January 2008 just after his 52nd birthday. He was a former priest who left the priesthood to devote himself to writing and public speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the words he left, I can see that he was more than all that. He offered a glimpse of Heaven and what God is like, and in that sense he was a messenger from God&#8211;not an angel but a brother who shared what God revealed to him. In the video below, he is reciting a poem he wrote called&nbsp;<em>Beannacht<\/em>, which means Blessing in Irish. Apparently he recorded this not long before his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found the words to be comforting and a gentle hug to a grieving heart. My sister passed away last August and my dad last October. Grieving is not fun, and although it gets better, it never totally goes away. If you&#8217;ve lost a loved one, be sure and watch this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"John O&#039;Donohue: &quot;Beannacht&quot; (Blessing)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZfvS2LYbZLQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John O&#8217;Donohue is best known for his book,\u00a0Anam Cara, A Book of Celtic Wisdom. He was a poet, philosopher, and scholar&#8211;from the back cover of the book. O&#8217;Donohue died\u00a0unexpectedly\u00a0in January 2008 just after his 52nd birthday. He was a former priest who left the priesthood to devote himself to writing and public speaking. But in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[516,6],"tags":[440,556],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-ireland","tag-grief","tag-john-odonohue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}