{"id":198,"date":"2016-04-09T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allhis.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2016-04-09T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:49:05","slug":"small-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Small Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maker looked lovingly at the seeds in His hand<br \/>\nEach barely an eighth an inch long,<br \/>\nAnd smiled and nodded approvingly<br \/>\nAs the other trees broke out in song,<br \/>\nThe little seeds little knew at that time<br \/>\nThe great lesson that God was showing,<br \/>\nOr the noble cause for which they were made<br \/>\nAnd the honor that He was bestowing,<!--more--><br \/>\nFrom humble beginnings and lowly estate<br \/>\nThese seeds would stand mighty and tall,<br \/>\nClapping their hands in worship and praise<br \/>\nTo greet Jesus the Maker of all,<br \/>\nSo if you&#8217;re not noble or mighty<br \/>\nRemember neither were they,<br \/>\nSequoias took thousands of years to grow<br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t grow up in one day.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Tinjum\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maker looked lovingly at the seeds in His hand Each barely an eighth an inch long, And smiled and nodded approvingly As the other trees broke out in song, The little seeds little knew at that time The great lesson that God was showing, Or the noble cause for which they were made And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7f2Ml-3c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}