{"id":248,"date":"2013-05-22T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amysmic\/?p=248"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T15:00:01","slug":"i-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"I Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I&#8217;m lifting my white flag high in the air to You, Lord<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The earthly treasures I store up in vain, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The dreams that keep me discontent, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The pain of loss, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The agendas of each day, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The time I&#8217;ve called mine, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The loved ones I hold so dear, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The criticisms or accolades of man, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The memories that shape me, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The emotions that move me, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The talents that define me, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The passions that inspire me, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The failures and successes, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My rest in the night, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My actions through the day, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My body and my health, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My inner self, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>My sin and my pride, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Every deed, every thought, every breath, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who I was, who I am, and who I hope to be, I surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>To be wholly Thine, nothing can remain in my grip<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Yet, even to open my hands to You I must have Your aid<\/em><br \/>\n<em>So bless me now in this endeavor<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Without Your power, I am incapable of even the smallest surrender<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Own all of me I pray, this day and always<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m lifting my white flag high in the air to You, Lord The earthly treasures I store up in vain, I surrender The dreams that keep me discontent, I surrender The pain of loss, I surrender The agendas of each day, I surrender The time I&#8217;ve called mine, I surrender The loved ones I hold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Surrender&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614,"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\/248"}],"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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}