{"id":2664,"date":"2023-10-31T08:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2023-10-31T08:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:22:43","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2023\/10\/31\/prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-7.37.23-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-7.37.23-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-7.37.23-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-7.37.23-AM-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Perhaps,<br \/>\nlike Me,<br \/>\nYou were taught<br \/>\nthat Prayer is<br \/>\nentreaty,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">bowed knees and<br \/>\nbowed head, and<br \/>\ndesperate<br \/>\nlifted hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I have come<br \/>\nto Believe,<br \/>\nfor a forever<br \/>\nof reasons,<br \/>\nthat<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Prayer is a<br \/>\nheadfirst dive<br \/>\ninto the deep end<br \/>\nof a Pool of<br \/>\nLove,<br \/>\nbubbling with<br \/>\nthe Creator\u2019s<br \/>\nLaughter<br \/>\nthat You ever<br \/>\nthought<br \/>\nthere would be<br \/>\nany Answer other than<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u201cI will give You<br \/>\nas much<br \/>\nYES<br \/>\nas You can bear,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">until You are<br \/>\npersuaded that<br \/>\nAll I ever desired<br \/>\nfor You<br \/>\nwas that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">You learn to<br \/>\nswim in it,<br \/>\nand You<br \/>\nband together<br \/>\nwith Your Friends<br \/>\nto prowl<br \/>\naround the Pool,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">grabbing hapless<br \/>\nBystanders and<br \/>\nflinging Them in<br \/>\nuntil They must<br \/>\nswim for Their Lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Jed Villejo; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Prayer Perhaps, like Me, You were taught that Prayer is entreaty, bowed knees and bowed head, and desperate lifted hands. I have come to Believe, for a forever of reasons, that Prayer is a headfirst dive into the deep end of a Pool of Love, bubbling with the Creator\u2019s Laughter that You ever thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}