{"id":23788,"date":"2012-12-16T00:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T05:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=23788"},"modified":"2012-12-16T00:59:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T05:59:23","slug":"a-prayer-of-sorrow-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/a-prayer-of-sorrow-and-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer of Sorrow and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day,<br \/>\non every day,<br \/>\nlet us mourn with those who mourn.<\/p>\n<p>For our hearts are broken,<br \/>\nand all the sorrow and pain and suffering of the world<br \/>\nhas fallen in the shattered shells of ourselves.<br \/>\nLet us take us these fragile broken pieces<br \/>\nand lay them on Thine altar.<br \/>\nLet us make our broken hearts an offering unto Thee.<\/p>\n<p>O, God, we hurt.<\/p>\n<p>O God, let us find some comfort,<br \/>\nsome peace,<br \/>\nin doing Thy work,<br \/>\nin mourning with those who mourn,<br \/>\nand comforting those who stand in need of comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, forgive us our sins,<br \/>\non this day,<br \/>\non every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, on every day, let us mourn with those who mourn. For our hearts are broken, and all the sorrow and pain and suffering of the world has fallen in the shattered shells of ourselves. Let us take us these fragile broken pieces and lay them on Thine altar. Let us make our broken hearts an offering unto Thee. O, God, we hurt. O God, let us find some comfort, some peace, in doing Thy work, in mourning with those who mourn, and comforting those who stand in need of comfort. Lord, forgive us our sins, on this day, on every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23789,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23788\/revisions\/23789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}