{"id":1530,"date":"2013-01-18T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2013-01-18T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:52:23","slug":"god-patient-or-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"GOD – – – PATIENT? – OR – JUST?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A short poem my dad often quoted covers a lot of questions—sobering—convicting.<\/p>\n

“God’s mills grind slowly,<\/p>\n

But they grind exceeding small;<\/p>\n

While with patience He may linger,<\/p>\n

Yet in justice He grinds all.”<\/p>\n

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(see also\u00a0 “TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS”\u00a0 12-26-12 about waiting—on this site)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A short poem my dad often quoted covers a lot of questions—sobering—convicting. “God’s mills grind slowly, But they grind exceeding small; While with patience He may linger, Yet in justice He grinds all.”   (see also\u00a0 “TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS”\u00a0 12-26-12 about waiting—on this site)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}