{"id":144940,"date":"2023-09-05T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=144940"},"modified":"2023-09-05T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:31:18","slug":"a-prayer-on-being-humble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-prayer-on-being-humble\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer on Being Humble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening, first of all,<br \/>\nsince next to you I feel so small,<br \/>\nbut great at the same time,<br \/>\nas I seek to be in tune<\/p>\n<p>with you.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you. You are pretty cool,<br \/>\nmy Lord. And savior, yes, but<br \/>\nnot as prescribed by the fool<br \/>\nin need of shedding his own debt.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, I thank you as we speak<br \/>\ntogether on the mundane things,<br \/>\nand I forget that I am to be meek.<br \/>\nIn response to what a stranger brings:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord, for a mind<br \/>\nthat brings me perseverance.<br \/>\nThank you for the ethic to find<br \/>\ntime to study, try, learn, and advance.<\/p>\n<p>So few,<\/p>\n<p>Lord, are willing to listen,<br \/>\nand instead pretend to love you<br \/>\nby not loving themselves within.<br \/>\nYou didn&#8217;t say &#8220;to thine own self be true,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So true!<\/p>\n<p>The ethic to work and to earn<br \/>\nis a gift from you, Lord,<br \/>\nbecause you have helped me learn<br \/>\nso that I can afford<\/p>\n<p>being true<\/p>\n<p>to this vessel you built for my soul.<br \/>\nThank you, sweet friend!<br \/>\nTo love you more is my goal,<br \/>\nand love me more till the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God, Thanks for listening, first of all, since next to you I feel so small, but great at the same time, as I seek to be in tune with you. Yes, you. You are pretty cool, my Lord. And savior, yes, but not as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144948,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144940\/revisions\/144948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}