{"id":4041,"date":"2020-12-14T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:40:08","slug":"4041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=4041","title":{"rendered":"We Ready Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Against that time <br>When life falls short <br>Must we steady ourselves <br>With the knowledge  <br>That the One who came <br>And saved our souls <br>Does not sleep nor slumber. <br>Ever shall we remain in the number <br>That He Himself has called from the start. <br>&#8216;Twas always His plan to impart <br>To us that light, the knowledge of Him <br>Who came for us no on some whim  <br>But by purposes divine long ago <br>That each of His chosen would know <br>The way, the truth, and the life. <br>Ours is to press on unending <br>In our obedience and sending   <br>The same convictions to our offspring <br>That they, too, His praise may sing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0728 on 14 Dec., 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against that time When life falls short Must we steady ourselves With the knowledge That the One who came And saved our souls Does not sleep nor slumber. Ever shall we remain in the number That He Himself has called from the start. &#8216;Twas always His plan to impart To us that light, the knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,12,18,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}