{"id":4535,"date":"2026-04-23T18:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:13:39","slug":"its-all-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2026\/04\/23\/its-all-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s All Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

It\u2019s All Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

I Used to Believe
\nPrayer Meant
\nKnees On the Floor,
\nHead Bowed, Eyes Closed,
\nLips Formed Around
\nWords Like
\n\u201cHoly Father\u201d or
\n\u201cBlessed Savior\u201d or
\n\u201cAlmighty God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps So,
\nIf It Pleases You . . .
\nReverence Has Its Place.<\/p>\n

I Will Not Judge,
\nLest I Be Judged.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m Also Learning
\nNot to Judge
\nWhen One Joyful Bro
\nPrays With His Fellow Bro
\nBy Clinking Brewskis
\nand Singing
\n\u201cGlory Be\u201d
\nWhile Laughing Heavenward.<\/p>\n

Or Heavenly Sisters
\nDance
\nWhile Singing
\nThe Chorus to
\n\u201cLight My Fire\u201d by
\nThe Doors,
\nas They Try to
\nSet The Night Aflame.<\/p>\n

Or You Sit,
\nSobbing,
\nWhen The Angel, Clarence,
\nRescues George Bailey from
\nOblivion In
\n\u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or You Just Rescued
\na Spider
\nBefore Your Shower
\nWashed It
\nDown the Drain.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s All Prayer,
\nBrothers and Sisters.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s All Prayer.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Ashkan Ala; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It\u2019s All Prayer I Used to Believe Prayer Meant Knees On the Floor, Head Bowed, Eyes Closed, Lips Formed Around Words Like \u201cHoly Father\u201d or \u201cBlessed Savior\u201d or \u201cAlmighty God.\u201d Perhaps So, If It Pleases You . . . Reverence Has Its Place. I Will Not Judge, Lest I Be Judged. But I\u2019m Also […]<\/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-4535","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\/4535","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=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4539,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/4539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}