{"id":347,"date":"2023-12-21T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/?p=347"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:21:02","slug":"a-christmas-thought-or-that-time-i-tried-writing-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/2023\/12\/21\/a-christmas-thought-or-that-time-i-tried-writing-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Thought- or that time I tried writing a poem&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>December is upon us, it\u2019s almost come to pass, the season of the year that in our minds should last, and last.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That Christ has come is all year true, His ageless gift for me and for you.\u00a0 God\u2019s love displayed in smallest form, come to earth again in stable warm.\u00a0 The spotless lamb, the promised one, messiah, king, humbled, to be born.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We celebrate by giving gifts and making time.\u00a0 We may gather and enjoy some pie.\u00a0<br>Some will sing and some will play, oh this should be a blessed day!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Yet all too soon that time will pass, with coats to find and bags to pack.\u00a0 Away we\u2019ll hurry, back to life. The highways busy, the traffic fast.\u00a0 Schedules beckon, bosses task.\u00a0 New Year projects and too soon, summer plans. Just a little while and then there\u2019s spring, and already it seems we\u2019ve missed the deadlines and scrambled the scenes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Where was it that December went? Did we really do all that for just one month?\u00a0<br>What happened to that baby boy of whose birth we so sweetly sang?\u00a0<br>Have we pushed Him away too quick?<br>How will His birth change your world?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December is upon us, it\u2019s almost come to pass, the season of the year that in our minds should last, and last. That Christ has come is all year true, His ageless gift for me and for you.\u00a0 God\u2019s love displayed in smallest form, come to earth again in stable warm.\u00a0 The spotless lamb, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1037],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","tag-thoughts","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joshua-mathew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}