{"id":8201,"date":"2024-01-26T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2024-01-26T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:56:17","slug":"trials-and-tribulation-are-natural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"Trials and Tribulation are &#8220;Natural&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the fall of man and God&#8217;s plan <br>To restore the dignity of Adam through death, <br>The matters of sacrifice and trouble has beset <br>Humanity and the whole world. <br>It is normal, right, and good to go through trials: <br>The means of divine grace by which He <em>transforms<\/em> <br>Those whom He has <em>called out of the darkness<\/em>. <br>Patience and perseverance are the calls upon us. <br>We press on with high hopes and expectations <br>For that transformation and ultimate salvation. <br>Onward!\u00a0 Not looking back to our decadent past, <br>But rising with the saints through the ages <br>To make our own mark on history&#8217;s pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1030 on 26 Jan., 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the fall of man and God&#8217;s plan To restore the dignity of Adam through death, The matters of sacrifice and trouble has beset Humanity and the whole world. It is normal, right, and good to go through trials: The means of divine grace by which He transforms Those whom He has called out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52,23,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201"}],"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=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}