{"id":1192,"date":"2010-05-01T03:46:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T10:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2010-05-01T03:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T10:46:33","slug":"hopeful-thought-for-the-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/05\/01\/hopeful-thought-for-the-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More from Augustine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Augustine-Confessions-Oxford-Worlds-Classics\/dp\/0192833723\">Confessions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who will grant me to find peace in you?\u00a0 Who will grant  me this grace, that you would come into my heart and inebriate it,  enabling me to forget the evils that beset me and embrace you, my only  good?\u00a0 What are you to me?\u00a0 Have mercy on me, so that I may tell.\u00a0 What  indeed am I to you, that you should command me to love you, and grow  angry with me if I do not, and threaten me with enormous woes?\u00a0 Is not  the failure to love you woe enough in itself?\u00a0 Alas, for me!\u00a0 Through  your own merciful dealings with me, O Lord my God, tell me what you are  to me.\u00a0 Say to my soul, <em>I am your salvation<\/em>.\u00a0 Say it so that I  can hear it.\u00a0 My heart is listening, Lord; open up the ears of my heart  and say to my soul, <em>I am your salvation<\/em>.\u00a0 Let me run toward this  voice and seize hold of you.\u00a0 Do not hide your face from me:\u00a0 let me die  so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More from Augustine&#8217;s Confessions: Who will grant me to find peace in you?\u00a0 Who will grant me this grace, that you would come into my heart and inebriate it, enabling me to forget the evils that beset me and embrace you, my only good?\u00a0 What are you to me?\u00a0 Have mercy on me, so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-je","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}