{"id":6377,"date":"2022-09-01T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2022-09-01T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:00:29","slug":"a-confessional-prayer-for-the-common-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6377","title":{"rendered":"A Confessional Prayer (for the common man)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lord, you know it is I, <br>The one You ought to despise, <br>Your number one POS <br>(Nothin&#8217; to it but to say it and admit; <br>I&#8217;m your number one piece o&#8217; shit!),  <br>Back before You to declare my sin, <br>Frail as a balloon lookin&#8217; at a pin. <br>Mighty glad You got the win <br>When they nailed You to that tree <br>For me and all the world to see  <br>That you loved us more than the earth, <br>Enough to come down and go through birth, <br>And hang around with us bums <br>Like a fellow makin&#8217; friends with crumbs! <br>You didn&#8217;t have to do it but You did; <br>In history You blew off the lid!<br>Nobody loves us like You do, <br>And so with the world we&#8217;re through; <br>We&#8217;re followin&#8217; nothin&#8217; but You.<br>We don&#8217;t despise our weak<br>Or reject our handicapped,<br>By the grave sin of abortion;<br>(Of love what a distortion!)<br>Would that we of Your word<br>Could recover a simple portion!<br>To the weak or shunned we offer love<br>(Grace comin&#8217; down from above<br>To save the nastiest of sinners,<br>Yes even the earliest of beginners).<br>But to hell with those who murder the weak<br>In pursuit of easy life like a freak,<br>Who make the death of a child a treasure<br>Making evil and murder a pleasure.<br>O turn from such sickness away!<br>Comes soon to you that Judgment Day.<br>You&#8217;ll fare not well down in hell<br>Where thieves and murderers dwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0937 on 30 Aug and 0843 on 31 Aug 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, you know it is I, The one You ought to despise, Your number one POS (Nothin&#8217; to it but to say it and admit; I&#8217;m your number one piece o&#8217; shit!), Back before You to declare my sin, Frail as a balloon lookin&#8217; at a pin. Mighty glad You got the win When they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52,53,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377"}],"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=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}