{"id":1035,"date":"2011-01-01T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:20:28","slug":"how-does-god-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"How Does God Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can not carry the tribulations,<br \/>\nthe birth and dying of one street.<br \/>\nHow could I therefore<br \/>\nlisten to the burdens of a village,<br \/>\na town,<br \/>\nthe murmuring of confessions,<br \/>\nthe confinement of a jailer,<br \/>\nthe brittle laughter of saloons,<br \/>\nadministering medicine to the ill?<br \/>\nShare the hope and helplessness<br \/>\nof the teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Yet we presume<br \/>\nGod has time for each<br \/>\nand every one of us.<br \/>\nDoesn\u2019t tire.<br \/>\nDoesn\u2019t weep.<br \/>\nMust weigh in the balance<br \/>\nevery moment of our lives,<br \/>\nand hold in the heart<br \/>\nhow much light is left<br \/>\nafter the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>And I have come<br \/>\nto the entrance of an answer.<br \/>\nThe arch of a truth.<br \/>\nHow the world was made<br \/>\nto allow the work of the Creator.<br \/>\nThe substance that is always<br \/>\nthe something it possesses,<br \/>\ngiving back in equal proportion<br \/>\nto what is taken.<br \/>\nRestores what has fallen,<br \/>\nand redeems every tear<br \/>\nwith the addition of joy<br \/>\nfor good measure.<\/p>\n<p>God said, I am nothing but this,<br \/>\nI will be nothing but this,<br \/>\nand everything I\u2019ve created<br \/>\nwill be made, shaped, polished<br \/>\nand rounded by this.<br \/>\nThe language of everything<br \/>\ntaken together.<br \/>\nIn the beginning and forever,<br \/>\nwas the word,<br \/>\nI am the word,<br \/>\nand the word is love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can not carry the tribulations, the birth and dying of one street. How could I therefore listen to the burdens of a village, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1035\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Does God Do It?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}