{"id":583,"date":"2014-12-25T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T01:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2014-12-25T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T01:17:06","slug":"river-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"River of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">River of Grace<br \/>\nBy<br \/>\nJoseph Anthony<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">River of Grace<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Yesterday spills over into now, like<br \/>\nA perpetual fountain; tomorrow<br \/>\nWaves backwards, catching us up<br \/>\nIn its unfolding tide of mystery.<br \/>\nNow branches tributaries in every direction<br \/>\nRegardless of where you focus<br \/>\nOr how, or which way you turn<br \/>\nYour attention\u2014you\u2019re standing<br \/>\nIn water, or succumbing to flowing<br \/>\nAnd rivering, rushing and burbling,<br \/>\nHushing and tumbling over and over<br \/>\nGathering up yesterdays, like<br \/>\nSo many fallen leaves,<br \/>\nRoaring towards tomorrow, like<br \/>\nA waterfall that ultimately resolves<br \/>\nInto stillness and reflection where you\u2019re breathing,<br \/>\nBody dripping wet, no longer ashamed<br \/>\nOf the time spent in yesterday,<br \/>\nOr the time spent in tomorrow,<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll just be here, half drowned<br \/>\nIn sorrow, half resurrected<br \/>\nIn hope\u2014here,<br \/>\nwhere there is no right way<br \/>\nto act a certain way.<br \/>\nHold out your hands, time is flowing.<br \/>\nMake a beginning, bring eternity<br \/>\nTo your waiting, trembling lips.<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><br \/>\n<input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"F4CK35BRFLT4Y\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you for your kind donations to keeping the work of the Wonder Child Blog going<br \/>\n<input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Subscribe today, I write a lot. <form method=\"post\" action=\"\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.163\" \/><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value == 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River of Grace By Joseph Anthony River of Grace Yesterday spills over into now, like A perpetual fountain; tomorrow Waves backwards, catching us up In its unfolding tide of mystery. Now branches tributaries in every direction Regardless of where you focus Or how, or which way you turn Your attention\u2014you\u2019re standing In water, or succumbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[142,137,136,141,833,140,139,138,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}