{"id":699,"date":"2024-06-21T01:55:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T05:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=699"},"modified":"2025-05-21T22:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:13:54","slug":"699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SHADOWS<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What do I see,&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What can it possibly be?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day is passing, night closing in,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The bell tis about ready to ring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day is gone, night is falling,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our Lord is calling.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A new day upon us is dawning.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Look at the hourglass, how the sand falls so steadily!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>With the lower half now almost full, not much on top to see.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Does each grain measured consist of days, months, or years?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All I know is that the time of Jesus return is ever drawing near.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Are our houses in order, our scruples proper, tidy, and washed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Have we done as instructed by our Lord as to counting the cost?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We must this day ask forgiveness of any wrongdoing on our part.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Believing God will answer our prayer for a clean and new loving heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Father, thank you for another day of life on this earth here which we live,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A crown we desire, that when gathered in heaven, to our God we can give.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>God\u2019s love so amazing one cannot begin to measure length, width, not depth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Let all the saints sing on high Gods praises loud and strong with our every breath.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author, by the grace of God,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sharon Rose Lawless\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 August 31, 2023\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHADOWS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What do I see,&nbsp;&nbsp; What can it possibly be? Day is passing, night closing in, The bell tis about ready to ring. Day is gone, night is falling, Our Lord is calling. A new day upon us is dawning. Look at the hourglass, how the sand falls so steadily!&nbsp; With the lower half &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shadows&#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-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}