With apologies to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,<\/p>\n
I shrink from commitment when called upon.<\/p>\n
Rather than answering, \u201cLord, here am I\u201d, I hesitate.<\/p>\n
Lacking for confidence, I instead suggest a mate.<\/p>\n
For surely doing \u201cthat\u201d isn\u2019t what You had in mind?<\/p>\n
Thank God, You patiently guide, stern but kind).<\/p>\n
You answer our prayers (or so the gospels say),<\/p>\n
But for most neon signs don\u2019t blaze “this is the way”.<\/p>\n
Yet giving thanks upon rising and just before bed<\/p>\n
As well as before breaking with blessings daily bread,<\/p>\n
And around the Table, asking for intercession and aid<\/p>\n
Prayer functions to voice inner-most thoughts unsaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With apologies to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, I shrink from commitment when called upon. Rather than answering, \u201cLord, here am I\u201d, I hesitate. Lacking for confidence, I instead suggest a mate. For surely doing \u201cthat\u201d isn\u2019t what You had in mind? Thank God, You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35111","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35133,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35111\/revisions\/35133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}