{"id":6050,"date":"2025-11-19T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:40:47","slug":"6050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=6050","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapel of the Transfiguration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing I saw was the constellation of houseflies<br>on the Chapel of the Transfiguration window blocking the grandeur<br>of the Cathedral Group with Grand Teton in the center.<br>The fly was the filthiest of creatures to my fastidious eye.<br>I was offended at first: the sacred was marred by the profane.<br>so I stepped outside the log church to see<br>the majesty of the mountains beneath the blue canopy<br>without the pious interference of human hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was sixty-two years ago. I\u2019ve had a rethink.<br>God is not captured, domesticated, and confined<br>to churches, but is alive in every created thing.<br>Without a nature-based spirituality, the word profane<br>means&nbsp;<em>outside the templ<\/em>e. Are we fish looking for water?<br>And why do we argue about who owns the water?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5134\" style=\"width:670px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-4.png 696w, https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-4-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>Chapel of the Transfiguration, Moose, WY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel of the Transfiguration The first thing I saw was the constellation of houseflieson the Chapel of the Transfiguration window blocking the grandeurof the Cathedral Group with Grand Teton in the center.The fly was the filthiest of creatures to my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/?p=6050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordtreasure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}