{"id":60078,"date":"2018-09-16T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/st-barnabas-church-creates-labyrinth-for-public-use\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T23:11:33","slug":"st-barnabas-church-creates-labyrinth-for-public-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/st-barnabas-church-creates-labyrinth-for-public-use\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Barnabas church creates labyrinth for public use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=61b83809-2da3-490d-bf96-906634bee063&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1308\" height=\"1432\" alt=\"Annie Seder and Leigh Waggoner finish painting a labyrinth at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Annie Seder and Leigh Waggoner finish painting a labyrinth at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>St. Barnabas Episcopal Church has created a labyrinth for public use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween the north side of the church building and the senior center is a nook that will soon be landscaped,\u201d the Rev. Leigh Waggoner said in a news release. \u201cA bench will be added, and everyone is invited to come walk this medieval seven-circuit labyrinth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A labyrinth is a meandering path in which, unlike a maze, there are no dead ends \u2013 the path leads to the center and back out again.<\/p>\n<p>It is an ancient archetype found in religious traditions in various forms throughout much of the world, some dating 4,000 years or more.<\/p>\n<p>Labyrinth have been used as tools for a walking meditation that can lead to personal, psychological or spiritual transformation.<\/p>\n<p>There are traditionally three stages to walking a labyrinth. The first happens as the walker steps onto the path and moves through its twists and turns, letting go of thoughts and distractions. This is a time of releasing, Waggoner said.<\/p>\n<p>The second stage occurs when the walker reaches the center, a place of meditation and prayer. This is a time of receiving what is there to be received.<\/p>\n<p>The third stage happens as the walker returns, following the same path that led to the center. \u201cThis is a time of union, intentionally joining to God, a higher power, or the creative and healing forces of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree stages or no stages, there is no wrong way to walk a labyrinth,\u201d Waggoner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labyrinth can be a tool for transformation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-60078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60078"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=60078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}