{"id":4811,"date":"2019-10-02T22:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T02:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2019-10-07T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T23:28:08","slug":"as-a-beggar-i-prayed-through-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4811","title":{"rendered":"As a beggar I prayed through another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">If the pronouns do indeed reference our Lord, there is this ending to St. Anselm&#8217;s prayer to Saint John the Evangelist that <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">I really like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\"><em>As a beggar I prayed through another because I had no confidence before Him myself and lo, He Himself takes care of me, and prays where I myself failed. What goodness, piety, and love! See, He shows how much He loves me\u2014He comes near to me so that I may love Him! So I press on and I hope, not in myself but in Him, for He listens to my desire who thus crowns my prayer. \u201cMy heart and my flesh\u201c rejoice in Him and love Him, \u201cand all that is within me\u201d bless Him. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Alegreya, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Amen indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the pronouns do indeed reference our Lord, there is this ending to St. Anselm&#8217;s prayer to Saint John the Evangelist that I really like: As a beggar I prayed through another because I had no confidence before Him myself and lo, He Himself takes care of me, and prays where I myself failed. What &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4811\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;As a beggar I prayed through another&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}