{"id":872,"date":"2014-12-18T14:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:21:24","slug":"open-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Open Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Open Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prancing and dancing and singing a song.<\/p>\n<p>Loving life as I stroll along.<\/p>\n<p>The sun is shining. What a wonderful day.<\/p>\n<p>The birds will sing. The squirrels will play.<\/p>\n<p>I met a man and he tipped his hat.<\/p>\n<p>I smiled big and waved my hand back.<\/p>\n<p>Next came a mother with a stroller.<\/p>\n<p>Followed by a small child a little older.<\/p>\n<p>The park on Saturday, like heaven\u2019s parade.<\/p>\n<p>All happy people not living a charade.<\/p>\n<p>Just being themselves, and having fun.<\/p>\n<p>No sign of muggers or men with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Just families on a picnic or just an outing.<\/p>\n<p>Flying kites, running, laughing and shouting.<\/p>\n<p>Life is great. It\u2019s good to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>Good to get away from that work week hive.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing nature in such beautiful light<\/p>\n<p>reminds me of God and all that is right.<\/p>\n<p>I pray the world will one day have peace.<\/p>\n<p>I would love for all the fighting to cease.<\/p>\n<p>Probably, that day will only come<\/p>\n<p>when we see the return of God\u2019s only son.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2011)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Open Prayer Prancing and dancing and singing a song. Loving life as I stroll along. The sun is shining. What a wonderful day. The birds will sing. The squirrels will play. I met a man and he tipped his hat. I smiled big and waved my hand back. Next came a mother with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Prayer<\/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":[27,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-free-bird-poetry","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}