{"id":1322,"date":"2015-04-24T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:07:07","slug":"only-by-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"Only By Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only By Faith<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Two shots ring out in the dark.<\/p>\n

One of them has pierced her heart.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t need the Bible to know.<\/p>\n

Something is wrong with this show.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Two young lovers walking along.<\/p>\n

They were happy, singing a song.<\/p>\n

When this tragedy struck one dead.<\/p>\n

There was nothing to be said.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Months later, the police had a suspect.<\/p>\n

Mistake in identity was his regret.<\/p>\n

He intended for it to be someone else.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t change how we all felt.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We wanted blood, mainly his.<\/p>\n

He needs the death penalty for all this.<\/p>\n

Life goes on for us without her.<\/p>\n

Nothing really makes it better, for sure.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There has got to be a better way.<\/p>\n

People are being killed every day.<\/p>\n

Wasted lives, snuffed out when young.<\/p>\n

Never knowing what they would become.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Are we to forgive the person who kills our love one?<\/p>\n

Does that make it better, like it had never begun?<\/p>\n

It takes a deep agape love to understand this.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, there is no sense even being remiss.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Without agape love, the death penalty is it.<\/p>\n

Still,—– nothing will ever \u00a0let you forget.<\/p>\n

A type of hate festers and grows.<\/p>\n

Nothing will cool it. that\u2019s how it goes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The end result is a loss all around.<\/p>\n

There has to be holier ground.<\/p>\n

The fact that God can take away all hate & bitterness.<\/p>\n

Is a miracle beyond words, least we forget.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I pray that I am never faced with such a thing.<\/p>\n

By faith alone, \u00a0can one\u2019s feelings bring<\/p>\n

any kind of conciliation for such a heinous act.<\/p>\n

Totally trusting in God is where it is at.<\/p>\n

———————————————-R. W. Johnson—–(2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Only By Faith Two shots ring out in the dark. One of them has pierced her heart. We don\u2019t need the Bible to know. Something is wrong with this show.   Two young lovers walking along. They were happy, singing a song. When this tragedy struck one dead. There was nothing to be said. … Continue reading Only By Faith<\/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":[29,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","category-random","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","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=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}