{"id":17620,"date":"2019-12-11T04:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=17620"},"modified":"2019-12-19T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:06:01","slug":"joy-december-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/joy-december-10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy, December 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cO God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.\u201d<\/p><cite>Psalms 63:1-5<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing captures my ideal prayer more than this Psalm, and yet, I find my lists of needs and names dominate my prayers more than my gratitude and longing for God. How would a prayer like this change me? Perhaps it would make me less selfish. Perhaps it would help me trust Him more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cO God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/joy-december-10-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joy, December 11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17620"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17737,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17620\/revisions\/17737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}