{"id":8274,"date":"2024-02-08T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T17:17:18","slug":"those-misbehaving-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=8274","title":{"rendered":"Those Misbehaving Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whenever you see someone misbehaving: <br>Even just some sloppy bathroom shaving, <br>Remember that we are all fallen critters, <br>Always disrupting or offending <em>someone<\/em>. <br>We all rub each other the wrong way <br>From time to time and need to be aware<br>And not just give one another a stare.<br>How we, I indeed, fail to respect and restore<br>Those who slip and slide even to the floor!<br>Restoration is our duty upon repentance received.<br>It&#8217;s the way we sinners do who have in Him believed.<br>We despise sin, in others and in ourselves<br>But we are not as simple, emotional elves.<br>Ours is to buck up, forgive, and restore<br>Those brothers and others who run into the door<br>Breaking themselves by their own buffoonery &#8211;<br>Some ending up even worse &#8211; to the infirmary.<br>So restore the one who messed up and fell<br>And so keep yourself from trouble, even hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Feb., 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you see someone misbehaving: Even just some sloppy bathroom shaving, Remember that we are all fallen critters, Always disrupting or offending someone. We all rub each other the wrong way From time to time and need to be awareAnd not just give one another a stare.How we, I indeed, fail to respect and restoreThose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,54,18,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274"}],"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=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}