{"id":374,"date":"2010-07-22T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-07-22T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:08:00","slug":"jesus-the-great-listener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Jesus The Great Listener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TEioezZZ-5I\/AAAAAAAAIaE\/4oLpLVCxljo\/s1600\/DSC01916.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TEioezZZ-5I\/AAAAAAAAIaE\/4oLpLVCxljo\/s320\/DSC01916.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5496828592352000914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>You are the great listener.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">You know I am not so great at listening.<\/div>\n<p>You speak to me anyways, You find a way, You bring me your way.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">You let me come to you in all the times of life.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">You wait and call out to me when I am not coming.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">I come to you in so many different states.<br \/>Today I might come to you calmly with a confident request.<br \/>Tomorrow I might return joyfully and thankfully with a blessed burden.<br \/>Today I might come to you with crushing emotion and a desperate request.<br \/>Tomorrow I might come to you defiantly, struggling with trust and breaking under a burden.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all you always let me come.<br \/>No matter how often and how weak or strong I am you let me come.<\/p>\n<p>When I can come, give it and walk away in peace but once, you let me come.<br \/>When I have to return over and over and choose to leave it and then walk away choosing to be at peace, you let me come.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Jesus I thank you for the place to come&#8230; for you being my place to come no matter what&#8230;<br \/>I thank you that there is no formula to our relationship, no zone; no person I have to pretend to be or find with in before I can come to you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">You are the great listener.<br \/>You are the place I can put my burdens down.<br \/>You are the place of answers.<br \/>You are.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you my Jesus!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">TTFN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are the great listener. You know I am not so great at listening. You speak to me anyways, You find a way, You bring me your way. You let me come to you in all the times of life. You wait and call out to me when I am not coming. I come to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}