{"id":83,"date":"2009-11-20T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=83"},"modified":"2009-11-20T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T13:28:06","slug":"lasting-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Lasting influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord.&#8221; (Ps. 102:18)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small-caps\">I am not so vain as to think that my daily musings will serve to inspire thousands who come after me.\u00a0 Yet, this verse does remind me of the lasting influence, however small,\u00a0each of us may have on those around us &#8211; especially our family and close friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small-caps\">So let your light shine as brightly as it can today.\u00a0 Never mind that others&#8217; lamps may shine brighter.\u00a0 None of us, after all, are any more than channels of God&#8217;s mercy.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small-caps\"><em>Channels only, blessed Master<br \/>\nBut with all thy wondrous power<br \/>\nFlowing through us<br \/>\nThou canst use us<br \/>\nEvery day, and every hour.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.&#8221; (Ps. 102:18) I am not so vain as to think that my daily musings will serve to inspire thousands who come after me.\u00a0 Yet, this verse does remind me of the lasting influence, however &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=83\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lasting influence&#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\/83"}],"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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}