{"id":32,"date":"2019-10-28T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=32"},"modified":"2020-07-13T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:15:48","slug":"the-station-will-be-truly-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"The Station Will Be Truly Grand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote this one when I was reading <em>The Anatomy of the Soul<\/em> by Kurt Thompson. I found that book fascinating&#8211;as I find most every book about the brain, how the mind and brain interrelate, etc., fascinating. The particular thing I was struck by that made its way into this poem was Thompson&#8217;s picture of the brain as a train station and how we can be hijacked by experiences that get us functioning primarily in our limbic system and not using our prefrontal cortex. A regular theme of Thompson&#8217;s book is of the need for our brains to be <em>integrated<\/em> &#8230; spotlighting the often great <em>dis<\/em>-integration of my own brain. God made us with a whole brain, to beautifully work in tandem. I love that he&#8217;s doing that in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE STATION WILL BE TRULY GRAND<br><\/strong>Left brain left brain left brain right<br>Crooked march into the night<br>Left brain left brain left brain more<br>Soul hands bloody on the door<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Split distracted crashing trains<br>Shouting louder \u2018bout their pains<br>Confused conductor losing heart<br>Wringing hands oh where to start<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urgent pressure fear and shame<br>Grasping wind to rest in name<br>(his and mine they intertwine<br>I\u2019m in him the branch in Vine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh I\u2019m wrecked oh what a mess<br>Hebbian chokehold full court press<br>The day of trouble yes indeed<br>Seek the one thing to be freed<br>Be set high upon a rock<br>The Lord\u2019s temple has no clock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I lay my panic down<br>The peace of peace will be my crown<br>Where sin increases grace abounds<br>Soul hands thrust forth praise resounds<br>Oh your beaming constant face<br>Integrate my splintered race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this one when I was reading The Anatomy of the Soul by Kurt Thompson. I found that book fascinating&#8211;as I find most every book about the brain, how the mind and brain interrelate, etc., fascinating. The particular thing I was struck by that made its way into this poem was Thompson&#8217;s picture of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}