{"id":304,"date":"2024-03-04T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=304"},"modified":"2024-03-04T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T03:10:46","slug":"donkeys-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"DONKEY\u2019S TAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Donkey in the well how did you get in there<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I cannot see how without there were stairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s so far down that I barely am able to see<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What will you do, someone help him please<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>No one can do it; it is not possible they say<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He\u2019s too far down, in the bottom he\u2019ll stay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not that we don\u2019t care, really, we do indeed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s just that there\u2019s no solution we can see<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So, we began to cover him up, to fill the well<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ever so sad that into the well he had fell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He was such a sweet donkey to have around<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But now we must bury him deep in the ground<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s this we see, why he\u2019s on higher ground<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>With each new shovel of dirt, we pitch down<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why he\u2019s shaking the dirt right off of his back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And I do believe he\u2019s smiling, now that\u2019s a fact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lo and behold, he\u2019s climbing over the well<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And, and all I see now is the back of his tail<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Because he has trotted off to the barn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And with nary a single sign of bodily harm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The moral of this tail, I would like you to see<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When all hope is gone, there is hope indeed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Never give up on God bringing you to where<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He wants you to be, even without any stairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author, by God\u2019s grace,<\/strong>   <strong>Sharon Rose Lawless,<\/strong>  <strong>August 30, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey in the well how did you get in there I cannot see how without there were stairs It\u2019s so far down that I barely am able to see What will you do, someone help him please No one can do it; it is not possible they say He\u2019s too far down, in the bottom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DONKEY\u2019S TAIL&#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-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}