{"id":4577,"date":"2024-05-07T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2024-05-13T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:33:34","slug":"remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/poetry\/remembering\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembering how a cooling hand<br>refreshed a feverish brow\u2026<br>Remembering , too, encouraging words<br>when confidence escaped, somehow\u2026<br>Receiving praise for some small thing\u2026<br>I\u2019ve felt the warmth of mothering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembering sacrifices made<br>without twinge of regret\u2026<br>Remembering treats laid out for friends<br>who with a welcome smile were met\u2026<br>Receiving joyful songs to sing\u2026<br>I\u2019ve felt the strength of mothering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembering asking for God\u2019s love<br>to carry me through troubled days\u2026<br>Remembering wondering how to teach<br>both mind and hearts in helpful ways\u2026<br>Receiving help from prayers I bring\u2026<br>I\u2019ve known God\u2019s kind of mothering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembering so much to be done, &#8211;<br>Always seeming on the go\u2026<br>Remembering joy when things went right<br>when thankful hearts would sometimes show\u2026<br>Receiving songs of praise to sing\u2026<br>I\u2019ve known God\u2019s help in mothering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem for Mother&#8217;s Day by Janet Stroup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[588,207,587,259],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-janet-stroup","tag-messenger","tag-mothers-day","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4590,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/4590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}