{"id":309,"date":"2006-09-22T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=309"},"modified":"2006-09-21T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T16:22:51","slug":"bits-and-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/bits-and-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 34:2).<\/p>\n<p>Too often, the boasting in the secret chamber of my own heart has been in me.<\/p>\n<p>And now what do I have? Key &#8220;accomplishments&#8221; now seem as sawdust and glorious dreams as the fading sparkles of short-lived-but-spectacular fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>May such bitter lessons be well-learned . . . and not forgotten to be repeated another day.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 34:14).<\/p>\n<p>So often, I want peace to come to me. I want peace to happen. I want peace to be.<\/p>\n<p>But peace is something to be sought and pursued. Hmmmm!<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 34:18).<\/p>\n<p>Since that&#8217;s what it takes, that&#8217;s what I want.<\/p>\n<p>(But I don&#8217;t like the breaking process!)<\/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>&#8220;My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad&#8221; (Psalm 34:2). Too often, the boasting in the secret chamber of my own heart has been in me. And now what do I have? Key &#8220;accomplishments&#8221; now seem as sawdust and glorious dreams as the fading sparkles of [&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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-4Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}