{"id":20,"date":"2016-02-15T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T23:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allhis.org\/?p=20"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:42:37","slug":"dust-and-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Dust and Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God formed the first man<br \/>\nFrom the dust,<br \/>\nAs an earthen vessel of clay,<br \/>\nThen blew in his nostrils<br \/>\nThe breath of life,<br \/>\nHis image to set on display.<\/p>\n<p>As a Master Artist<br \/>\nShows his passion for life,<br \/>\nOn canvas, gold, silver or stone,<br \/>\nSo the Lord demonstrated<br \/>\nHis wisdom and love,<br \/>\nBy not leaving His vessel alone.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Maker gazed<br \/>\nAt earth, water and sky,<br \/>\nAt all living things He created,<br \/>\nBut of all the great creatures<br \/>\nThat He had made,<br \/>\nIn mankind was most pleased and elated.<\/p>\n<p>Some say we are here<br \/>\nBy random chance,<br \/>\nWithout purpose or reason or rhyme,<br \/>\nBut I know the Lord God<br \/>\nFashioned my life,<br \/>\nLong before the beginning of time.<\/p>\n<p>So you can choose<br \/>\nTo think that life,<br \/>\nIs a product of happenstance,<br \/>\nBut I will choose<br \/>\nTo believe in the God,<br \/>\nOf new life and second chance.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Tinjum\u00a0 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God formed the first man From the dust, As an earthen vessel of clay, Then blew in his nostrils The breath of life, His image to set on display. As a Master Artist Shows his passion for life, On canvas, gold, silver or stone, So the Lord demonstrated His wisdom and love, By not leaving [&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":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7f2Ml-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"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=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allhis.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}