{"id":7400,"date":"2015-12-25T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbarkley.com\/?p=7400"},"modified":"2015-09-28T21:46:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T01:46:37","slug":"earths-crammed-with-heaven-elizabeth-barrett-browning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbarkley.com\/2015\/12\/25\/earths-crammed-with-heaven-elizabeth-barrett-browning\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth’s Crammed with Heaven | Elizabeth Barrett Browning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/elizabeth-barrett-_2844274b-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"Elizabeth Barrett Browning\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/elizabeth-barrett-_2844274b.jpg?resize=75%2C75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/elizabeth-barrett-_2844274b.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/elizabeth-barrett-_2844274b.jpg?zoom=2&resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/elizabeth-barrett-_2844274b.jpg?zoom=3&resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stephenbarkley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/elizabeth-barrett-_2844274b.jpg?fit=620%2C387&ssl=1 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Earth’s crammed with heaven;<br \/>\nAnd every common bush afire with God;<br \/>\nBut only he who sees, takes off his shoes,<br \/>\nThe rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Elizabeth Barrett Browning in James Bryan Smith,\u00a0<em>Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven<\/em> (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000), 116.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth’s crammed with heaven; 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