{"id":696,"date":"2014-03-03T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=696"},"modified":"2014-03-03T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:12:52","slug":"afraid-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2014\/03\/03\/afraid-of-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Afraid of the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo has\u00a0had a hard week.\u00a0 Or more like a series of hard weeks.\u00a0 She hasn’t been sleeping well since December, when her teen-aged daughter Teresa started feeling like she couldn’t breathe at night.\u00a0 Leo would rub Teresa’s chest and stay up with her, as the daughter was terrified that she was dying.\u00a0 She said she felt like her soul was leaving her body.\u00a0 She felt perfectly fine during the day, but was too scared to even attempt sleeping at night.<\/p>\n

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Leo's daughter Teresa can't sleep because of her fears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The family tried everything they could think of.\u00a0 They called the witchdoctor to treat her, but her fear persists.\u00a0 My co-worker gave the family candles to light at night, since the daughter is too scared when it’s dark.\u00a0 Afraid of the dark, afraid of the spirits, afraid of her breath being stolen, afraid of dying…<\/p>\n

Leo’s other daughter Simplicity has said, “Sometimes I’m so afraid that I can’t even bear it.\u00a0 I’m afraid to the point of shaking all over.”<\/p>\n

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Life and death inspires constant fear in the Nahuatl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fear is a constant companion to the Nahuatl and absence of fear stands out dramatically.\u00a0 It is standing out a great deal in the life of Agustina, the first believer in Las Moras.\u00a0 People want to know why she’s not afraid of the spirits, of dying, of rainbows, of the thunder, and of the dark.\u00a0 She said, “I used to sleep ‘aware’, you know?\u00a0Every little thing would wake me up in fear.\u00a0 But now, I just sleep<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Pray for Agustina’s continued testimony of the “peace that passes understanding” by a community whose lives are ruled by fear.\u00a0 Pray for Leo’s family: that her daughter would find a measure of peace to sleep for the time being, but most importantly that their family would find true peace for eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leo has\u00a0had a hard week.\u00a0 Or more like a series of hard weeks.\u00a0 She hasn’t been sleeping well since December, when her teen-aged daughter Teresa started feeling like she couldn’t breathe at night.\u00a0 Leo would rub Teresa’s chest and stay up with her, as the daughter was terrified that she was dying.\u00a0 She said she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}