{"id":467,"date":"2016-04-14T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2016-04-14T04:37:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T04:37:12","slug":"college-poem-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"College poem #23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busyness strikes again this week; at my teaching job, it&#8217;s test week for many of my students.  Before I lay head to pillow, however, I am determined to post 2 more poems. Here is the first; it was written after a period in my life when I had just come out of a very (spiritually) dry time, and I hungered to have GOD&#8217;s Word flow into my life again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLonging for the Word of the Lord\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lord, once Your Word rang in my heart like the sweet song of a lark.<br \/>\nNow, however, I have left Your Word out and I have fallen into the dark.<br \/>\nWithout the nourishing words of Scripture, my heart has become a dry husk.<br \/>\nI pray, Lord, that You would heal me and bring me back-not leave me in the dusk.<br \/>\nI implore You, in the name of Jesus, to give me a thirst for the righteousness that comes from You alone.<br \/>\nMay Your Word once again take its place in my life and fill me-spirit, mind, flesh and bone.<br \/>\nDraw me back to You, O Lord of my life, come and light the fire once again in me.<br \/>\nI pray that You would be the food and drink that give me life and sight spiritually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busyness strikes again this week; at my teaching job, it&#8217;s test week for many of my students. Before I lay head to pillow, however, I am determined to post 2 more poems. Here is the first; it was written after a period in my life when I had just come out of a very (spiritually) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/?p=467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">College poem #23<\/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-7x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"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=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielgaul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}