{"id":4433,"date":"2026-09-06T04:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:46:01","slug":"sunday-verses-glenn-church-9-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Glenn Church’ (9\/6\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RAHN ADAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

If, like a honey bee, we could fly up and away \/ on some sunny Sabbath morn, \/ what should we prepare ourselves to pollinate \/ but take care not to let our productive presence adorn?<\/p>\n

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‘GLENN CHURCH’ (2015), pastel, by T. G. Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What if we seek out some sourwood \/ with our flight over hills and vales, \/ and we alight at some lakeshore or reservoir? \/ Or just buzz into town for a paper, two coffees and Saturday’s mail?<\/p>\n

Wherever we might decide to hover, \/ we shouldn’t risk getting only a narrow, stained-glass view \/ like the mesmerized congregant \/ who sits way too long on his worn, red-cushioned pew.<\/p>\n

So, why might we not linger there? \/ We’re not mean robber bees with stingers for guns; \/ I mean, nature’s laws are always in motion \/ and, in turn, rule everything under the sun.<\/p>\n

It’s because, like Apis mellifera<\/em>, \/ even a calm church may be full of golden honey, \/ but there’s still venom in that hive \/ that can end — for the love of money — the unwary intruder’s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By RAHN ADAMS If, like a honey bee, we could fly up and away \/ on some sunny Sabbath morn, \/ what should we prepare ourselves to pollinate \/ but take care not to let our productive presence adorn? What if we seek out some sourwood \/ with our flight over hills and vales, \/ … Continue reading SUNDAY VERSES: ‘Glenn Church’ (9\/6\/2026)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":148,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}