{"id":5585,"date":"2011-10-23T07:33:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2011-10-23T07:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T11:33:32","slug":"down-to-the-river-to-pray-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=5585","title":{"rendered":"Down to the River to Pray &#8211; 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Down to the River to Pray \u2013 Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2215\" target=\"_blank\">(Down to the River to Pray Introduction and Explanation)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faith isn&#8217;t an exclusive God Club with passwords and secret handshakes, who&#8217;s in and who&#8217;s not.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a member, say the code,<\/p>\n<p><em>Person answering the door: &#8220;The rain in Spain fills the buckets of a train.&#8221; <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Person wanting in: &#8221; The man in the nightshirt, he walks with a cane.&#8221; <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Person answering the door: &#8220;You may enter, my brother.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and you&#8217;re in.\u00a0 I know it seems that way but it&#8217;s not.\u00a0\u00a0I don&#8217;t blame you for thinking that.<\/p>\n<p>Faith also isn&#8217;t a list of things, concepts, ideas, tenets, a philosophy, one, two, three, four, five, got &#8217;em? o.k.! and that&#8217;s that.\u00a0 I completely understand why you would think so.<\/p>\n<p>How can I communicate the God reality?\u00a0 It is relationship, it is renewal, it is life from death.\u00a0 How can I express that it is love, it is hope, and that it involves a real someone acting in real history?\u00a0 I guess only by relating, renewing, loving, accepting, forgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Lord, heal and save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Down to the River to Pray Introduction and Explanation) Faith isn&#8217;t an exclusive God Club with passwords and secret handshakes, who&#8217;s in and who&#8217;s not.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a member, say the code, Person answering the door: &#8220;The rain in Spain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=5585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[917,918,860,818,919,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5608,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}