{"id":215,"date":"2009-01-21T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-01-21T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T20:14:06","slug":"gods-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/gods-care\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw a bird<br \/>\n\u2018Twas speckled brown and white.<br \/>\nHe bobbed upon the wire<br \/>\nAnd sang with all his might.<\/p>\n<p>And then he flew away,<br \/>\nUp, up into the sky.<br \/>\nHis wing beats took him higher,<br \/>\nBut then\u2014! I saw nearby . . .<\/p>\n<p>The nest of twigs and grass<br \/>\nThis tiny bird had made.<br \/>\nHis mate was sitting there,<br \/>\nCompletely unafraid.<\/p>\n<p>She had no fears or frets\u2014<br \/>\nHer partner would be back.<br \/>\nPerchance he&#8217;d bring a worm,<br \/>\nPerhaps a different snack.<\/p>\n<p>I sit and think awhile . . .<br \/>\nHow birds just simply trust.<br \/>\nI think then of ourselves\u2014<br \/>\nAnd how much more we must!<\/p>\n<p><i>Now you&#8217;ve read the first five pages! Here are the last two:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes God&#8217;s care seems hard to bear,<br \/>\nLike chilly, drifting snow.<br \/>\nBut then I see how lovingly<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s helping me to grow.<\/p>\n<p>As I am sinking into sleep,<br \/>\nA seedling in Your care,<br \/>\nI trust You, Tender Gardener\u2014<br \/>\nI know You hear my prayer! <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=green>excerpted from<\/font><\/strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/202.shtml\">Outside My Window<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw a bird \u2018Twas speckled brown and white. He bobbed upon the wire And sang with all his might. And then he flew away, Up, up into the sky. His wing beats took him higher, But then\u2014! I saw nearby . . . The nest of twigs and grass This tiny bird had [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-excerpts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-3t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}