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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Miracle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A miracle happened for me a few years ago.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I have been blessed since, I want you to know.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The miracle was the birth of my first child.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Not an easy thing because it took awhile.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He was a large baby and labor was long.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I wanted it over & my wife just wanted it gone.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n She wanted the baby, she just wanted labor to end.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n After 3 days, she was becoming unhinged.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Then, finally, the moment arrived.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I was there, watching with pride.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Then, to my greatest surprise.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I was looking \u00a0at the little guy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He looked exactly like me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t believe what I could see.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n It was the greatest blessing there could be.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n To know I procreated a minnie me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He turned out to be my pride and joy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Extremely smart and real coy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He has since grown into a man.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I am still proud and say it whenever I can.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He excels in every way I did not.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A chip off the old block, or just a knot.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n He is someone who would make any father proud.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I love him and will yell it out loud.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n What greater miracle could there be?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n To procreate a minnie me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Then have him turn out better than me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Only one miracle is better than this.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n When God gave his Son, He would miss,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n for someone as wretched as me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n No greater love could there possibly be.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n ———————————————R. W. Johnson—–(2015)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Miracle A miracle happened for me a few years ago. I have been blessed since, I want you to know. The miracle was the birth of my first child. Not an easy thing because it took awhile. He was a large baby and labor was long. I wanted it over & my … Continue reading The Miracle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-nostalgia","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}