{"id":3090,"date":"2011-03-15T05:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T10:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2011-03-15T05:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T10:57:30","slug":"lenten-thought-for-the-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3090","title":{"rendered":"Lenten thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3067\" href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=3067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3067\" title=\"100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100216182702resized_devotions_for_lent.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come to my help, O God; Lord, hurry to my rescue.&#8221; Psalm 70:1<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEDITATION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I CANNOT DO THIS ALONE<\/strong><br \/>\nO God, early in the morning I cry to you.<br \/>\nHelp me to pray<br \/>\nAnd to concentrate my thoughts on you;<br \/>\nI cannot do this alone.<\/p>\n<p>In me there is darkness,<br \/>\nBut with you there is light;<br \/>\nI am lonely, but you do not leave me;<br \/>\nI am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;<br \/>\nI am restless, but with you there is peace.<br \/>\nIn me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;<br \/>\nI do not understand your ways,<br \/>\nBut you know the way for me. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Restore me to liberty,<br \/>\nAnd enable me to live now<br \/>\nThat I may answer before you and before men.<br \/>\nLord, whatever this day may bring,<br \/>\nYour name be praised.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Germany\/1906\u20131945)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Cyprian (Tunisia\/d. 258)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Come to my help, O God; Lord, hurry to my rescue.&#8221; Psalm 70:1 MEDITATION I CANNOT DO THIS ALONE O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray And to concentrate my thoughts on you; I cannot do this alone. In me there is darkness, But with you there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}