{"id":238,"date":"2024-02-24T15:19:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=238"},"modified":"2024-02-25T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T20:23:39","slug":"awfully-grand-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"AWFULLY GRAND TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>IN TIMES LIKE THESE WE OFTEN HEAR IT SAID ROUND AND ABOUT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I&#8217;M TIRED OF THIS OLE WORLD AND I JUST CAN&#8217;T WAIT TO GET OUT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YET IN THE MIST OF LIFE&#8217;S TRIAL&#8217;S AND TRIBULATION&#8217;S SEEN ALL AROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MIRICLES ARE TO BE HAD, BEAUTY AND KINDNESS ARE STILL TO BE FOUND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PAINFUL CRYS ABOUND AS A LOVED ONE PASSES THROUGH THIS WORLD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TEARS OF JOY GLISTEN HEARING A NEWBORN&#8217;S CRY SETTING HEARTS A WHIRL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FEAR IN THE LONELY NIGHT WHEN ALL HUMANITY VANISHES WITHOUT A TRACE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COURAGE RENEWED AT DAWN UPON FINDING FRIEND AND FAMILY FACE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANGER AND HATRED FOUND ABIDING IN THOSE WHO SHUN GOD&#8217;S LIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MERCY AND GRACE HAND IN HAND EVER WALK TOGETHER DAY AND NIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SEEKING THOSE THAT ARE TIRED AND TRODDEN, WEARY AND WORN BY LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE HOLY SPIRIT BECKONS US TO ABIDE IN HIS WINGS AND TAKE FLIGHT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FOR THIS WORLD CAN NOT HOLD THOSE LIVING IN JESUS CHRIST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ONCE PRISIONED TO THIS WORLD WITH NO HOPE TO WIN THE FIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WE CLAIM HIS PROMISES BELIEVING HIS WORD WITH ALL OUR MIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SOLDIER&#8217;S IN THE LORD&#8217;S ARMY, THE CROSS EVER HELD IN VISION&#8217;S SIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THY WORD OUR MEAT, BREAD, AND WATER BY WHICH WE ARE FEED<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RENEWING OUR SPIRIT, REFRESHING THE SOUL, QUICKENING OUR STEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FORGIVENESS OF SIN BRINGING PEACE IN THE MIST OF LIFE&#8217;S STORM&#8217;S ALL AROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRACE AND MERCY SURROUNDS OUR BEING, WHERE ONCE SIN ONLY WAS FOUND.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOVING MY GOD, THE GREAT I AM, FOR HE FIRST LOVED ME WITH ALL OF HIS MIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EVEN GIVING HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO A WORLD HE KNEW WOULD TAKE HIS LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I&#8217;LL FIGHT WITH EVERYTHNG THAT IS IN ME, TILL ONE DAY I WEAR MY ROBE OF WHITE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE ON THIS EARTH, KNOWING IT IS GOD&#8217;S BATTLE I FIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>AUTHOR, BY GOD&#8217;S GRACE,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SHARON ROSE LAWLESS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OCTOBER 21, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN TIMES LIKE THESE WE OFTEN HEAR IT SAID ROUND AND ABOUT I&#8217;M TIRED OF THIS OLE WORLD AND I JUST CAN&#8217;T WAIT TO GET OUT YET IN THE MIST OF LIFE&#8217;S TRIAL&#8217;S AND TRIBULATION&#8217;S SEEN ALL AROUND MIRICLES ARE TO BE HAD, BEAUTY AND KINDNESS ARE STILL TO BE FOUND PAINFUL CRYS ABOUND AS &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AWFULLY GRAND TIME&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}