{"id":328,"date":"2015-12-22T04:29:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2015-12-22T04:30:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T04:30:25","slug":"college-poem-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"College Poem #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of another worship song from my childhood days while writing this; it&#8217;s entitled &#8220;Light the fire again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Losing my Connection with God<\/p>\n<p>What has happened to my heart, oh God? My heart feels empty, with nothing to fill<br \/>\nThe void within-I feel as lifeless as a dead insect on the windowsill.<br \/>\nNot so long ago, I believed my faith was strong-that I was ready for whatever lay ahead.<br \/>\nBut now, rather than moving closer to You, I have been drawn away instead.<br \/>\nI long to hear Your voice, oh Lord, it is water to my soul.<br \/>\nWithout You, I am incomplete; Your love is what makes me whole.<br \/>\nSo draw me back into Your presence that I may worship and fall down<br \/>\nAt the feet of the King who took my place on the cross, wearing a thorny crown.<br \/>\nI am like a wayward sheep, Lord, turning to follow my own way.<br \/>\nForgive me, Lord, and heal my heart, that in Your presence, I would forever desire to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of another worship song from my childhood days while writing this; it&#8217;s entitled &#8220;Light the fire again.&#8221; Losing my Connection with God What has happened to my heart, oh God? My heart feels empty, with nothing to fill The void within-I feel as lifeless as a dead insect on the windowsill. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College Poem #7<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5w0VP-5i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}