{"id":4240,"date":"2014-02-17T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2014-02-17T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T03:05:12","slug":"a-poem-of-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"A Poem of Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My poem of the week this week comes from Elizabeth Prentiss, whose poems abut faith in the midst of suffering have for years been a challenge and comfort to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo Be It\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So be it; &#8217;tis Thy plan not mine,<br \/>\nAnd being Thine is good;<br \/>\nAnd God, my will shall yield to Thine<br \/>\nEre it is understood.<\/p>\n<p>So be it; I a child of dust<br \/>\nWill not oppose Thy way,<br \/>\nMove on, mysterious Will, I trust,<br \/>\nI love, and will obey.<\/p>\n<p>So be it; and do Thou, my heart,<br \/>\nNo childish questions ask,<br \/>\nThou in God&#8217;s counsels hast no part,<br \/>\nCrave not so hard a task.<\/p>\n<p>So be it; yes, so be it, Lord,<br \/>\nNo word have I to say&#8211;<br \/>\nO be Thy gracious Name adored&#8211;<br \/>\nI love and will obey.<\/p>\n<p>~ Elizabeth Prentiss, from <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1jyUyga\"><em>Golden Hours<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem of the week this week comes from Elizabeth Prentiss, whose poems abut faith in the midst of suffering have for years been a challenge and comfort to me. \u201cSo Be It\u201d So be it; &#8217;tis Thy plan not mine, And being Thine is good; And God, my will shall yield to Thine Ere &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;A Poem of Trust&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[261,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}