{"id":10136,"date":"2007-02-23T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10136"},"modified":"2007-02-23T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T20:41:09","slug":"a-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10136","title":{"rendered":"A Tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tear was shed by me today<br \/>\nBecause someone did pass my way<br \/>\nThis person did remind this one<br \/>\nHow special that my life has run<br \/>\nGod gives to us yes everyday<br \/>\nThe things we need to go our way<br \/>\nBut often we feel we need more<br \/>\nAnd we shove God outside our door<br \/>\nWe do not trust him try to bear<br \/>\nAll of life&#8217;s troubles as if not there<br \/>\nYes we ignore God when we need<br \/>\nHis help and guidance when we need<br \/>\nInstead of thanking him when we<br \/>\nShould be so thankful instead of we<br \/>\nYes we ignore what God did give<br \/>\nAnd just go on the same way we live<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t ask God to guide us we<br \/>\nJust feel that he will always be<br \/>\nYes always be there when our need<br \/>\nIs so that we plead that we need<br \/>\nYes need his help because what we<br \/>\nMessed up in life we feel that he<br \/>\nWill fix it all will clear things up<br \/>\nAnd if he does that&#8217;s not enough<br \/>\nWe just want more and more it seems<br \/>\nWe want him to fulfill our dreams<br \/>\nAnd not ask him to lead us where<br \/>\nHe wants us go we just don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nSo next time when you see someone<br \/>\nWho is worse off than the path we&#8217;ve gone<br \/>\nThank God and ask him what to do<br \/>\nBefore we are in someone&#8217;s view<br \/>\nMuch worse than them and they pity us<br \/>\nSo just don&#8217;t sit there, sit and cuss<br \/>\nNo ask God&#8217;s help in good and bad<br \/>\nAnd better path we soon will have<\/p>\n<p> By Ronald Gainsford<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2000 Ronald Gainsford <\/p>\n<p> BY RGAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tear was shed by me today Because someone did pass my way This person did remind this one How special that my life has run God gives to us&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/?p=10136\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Tear<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rongainsford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}