{"id":1581,"date":"2015-09-19T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/little-friend-a-poem-for-today\/"},"modified":"2015-09-19T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T10:00:12","slug":"little-friend-a-poem-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/little-friend-a-poem-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Friend \u2013 a poem for today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>little friend if you truly knew me<\/div>\n<div>would you look up so expectantly<\/div>\n<div>so hopefully, if you knew<\/div>\n<div>my limited strength, my weaknesses<\/div>\n<div>my need, would you sleep so calmly<\/div>\n<div>in my lap, conformed to the circle of my arms<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>you run ahead of me<\/div>\n<div>in so many ways, you want to<\/div>\n<div>let me know what is fun<\/div>\n<div>you want me to let go of the day<\/div>\n<div>and join you in this moment<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>and when you stray off in silly passions<\/div>\n<div>you bear my imperfect correction<\/div>\n<div>with avid repentance<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>my little friend you teach me all<\/div>\n<div>of what you know, free of learning<\/div>\n<div>free of arduous study and heavy doctrine<\/div>\n<div>with your eyes and your wagging tail<\/div>\n<div>your tongue-licks of minute assurances<\/div>\n<div>you speak the truth knit in your bones<\/div>\n<div>and so we go together, my friend,<\/div>\n<div>into this good day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150903_094026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5624911 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150903_094026-e1442519337244-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"20150903_094026\" width=\"584\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/bgc917wJewY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>little friend if you truly knew me would you look up so expectantly so hopefully, if you knew my limited strength, my weaknesses my need, would you sleep so calmly in my lap, conformed to the circle of my arms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/little-friend-a-poem-for-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}