{"id":5543,"date":"2022-01-25T17:03:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T22:03:33","slug":"remember-children-are-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"Remember?  Children are a Blessing!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is it with people and divine blessings? <br>&#8220;One and done&#8221;? <br>&#8220;Two and we&#8217;re through&#8221;? <br>&#8220;Three and we&#8217;re free&#8221;? <br>Think that&#8217;s liberty? <br>From what? The blessing of children? <br>When did the Word get supplanted <br>By liars and birth-control bandits? <br>How about some attention to Law <br>What does God say to us all? <br>Says those children are <em>blessings<\/em> <br>(Yes also distressing <br>As sanctification tends to be <br>Stretching us so we can see? <br>We call them little ASes; <br>They serve as His agents. <br>Yes, Agents of Sanctification <br>Shaping our selfish hearts <br>To care for those little farts <br>Who cause us all kinds of stress <br>And drive us our sins to confess. <br>Take His gifts with thanksgiving; <br>Be transformed by their living <br>And sighing, whining and crying.   <br>They are just like you are to God: <br>Sinners well in need of the rod. <br>So remember as you deliver a spanking: <br>He&#8217;s got one for you up there cranking <br>Ready to bring it down on your head <br>Be lots of those before you are dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.m. on 25 Jan., 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with people and divine blessings? &#8220;One and done&#8221;? &#8220;Two and we&#8217;re through&#8221;? &#8220;Three and we&#8217;re free&#8221;? Think that&#8217;s liberty? From what? The blessing of children? When did the Word get supplanted By liars and birth-control bandits? How about some attention to Law What does God say to us all? Says those children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,18,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543"}],"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=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}