{"id":239,"date":"2012-12-13T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amysmic\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:36:09","slug":"i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"I Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lord, I have watched with wonder the works of Your mighty hand.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have enjoyed the beauty of Your creation.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have experienced Your peace flooding over me.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have felt the warmth of friendship and its deep abiding love.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have received pleasure and pain in their equal fullness.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have treasured Your forgiveness.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have reveled in your grace.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have measured my spiritual growth, its fruit sweet to taste.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have been small and big with You, sometimes at the same time.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have cried tears of sorrow and tears of joy and known Your presence in both.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have watched new life enter this world and let go of loved ones going home.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I have danced in Your light and cuddled in the shadow of Your wings.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I am thirty-eight years old and have done all of these things.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When I am seventy-six, what will I know then?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For the abundant riches of You grow deeper with each passing season.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord, I have watched with wonder the works of Your mighty hand. I have enjoyed the beauty of Your creation. I have experienced Your peace flooding over me. I have felt the warmth of friendship and its deep abiding love. I have received pleasure and pain in their equal fullness. I have treasured Your forgiveness. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Have&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}