{"id":6398,"date":"2007-09-24T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/09\/24\/longing_for_jesus\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:01:03","slug":"longing_for_jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/09\/24\/longing_for_jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing For Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yesterday we went to church<\/strong> and sang the hymn &#8220;Jesus, I Long For Thee&#8221;, which was written by John Berridge in the 1700s.  Here are the words:<\/p>\n<p><i>Jesus I long for thee, and sigh for Canaan&#8217;s shore.  <br \/>\nThy lovely face to see, and all thy warfare oe&#8217;r.<br \/>\nBut here, billows break upon my breast, and brooding sorrows steal my rest.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I pant, I groan, I grieve, for my untoiled heart!  <br \/>\nHow full of doubts I live, though full of grace thou art.  <br \/>\nWhat poor returns, I make to thee, for all thy mercy shown to me!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And, must I ever smart, a child of sorrows here?  <br \/>\nYet, Lord, be near my heart, to soothe each rising tear.  <br \/>\nThen at thy bleeding cross I&#8217;ll stay, and sweetly weep my life away.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Poignant words to ponder!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book 1&#8217;s progress report:<\/strong>  I am now 45% done!  Just finished a powerful scene where my main character (Llyneus\/Merlin) is chased by <i>some-one or some-thing<\/i>.  No plot spoilers here!<\/p>\n<p>Views: 10<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nYesterday we went to church and sang the hymn &#8220;Jesus, I Long For Thee&#8221;, which was written by John Berridge&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2007\/09\/24\/longing_for_jesus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Longing For Jesus&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,10,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-christianity","category-progress-reports","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1Fc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}