You number our days, not we.
You declare the end, Lord,
As well as the beginning,
And after three strikes, it’s over.
No second chance; no “do over”!
Got to get it right the first time around;
No second chance to be found.
Press on! Got to live it right out,
Greeting each day with a welcome shout.
(Nobody does it like I,
Called by the Maker of the sky.)
He made us to know what He does;
No need to whine and put up a fuss.
Each one has his own calling;
By Him we keep from falling.
Onward, then, to the bloody end.
“Damn the torpedoes!\u00a0 Full speed ahead!”
So it was said by that navy man.
Keep up the spirit; press on, my friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A.m., 7 July, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You number our days, not we.You declare the end, Lord, As well as the beginning, And after three strikes, it’s over. No second chance; no “do over”! Got to get it right the first time around; No second chance to be found. Press on! Got to live it right out, Greeting each day with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938"}],"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=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4939,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}