{"id":7001,"date":"2011-05-13T07:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=7001"},"modified":"2011-05-13T07:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T12:15:41","slug":"agents-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110513-7001.htm","title":{"rendered":"Agents of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what you thought you were doing when you sang the chorus that impressed me with wonder at God&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<p><i>Performing, probably&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>But you were an agent of grace to me.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what you thought as you wrote the books that touched my heart, stimulated my mind, moved me to give glory to God.<\/p>\n<p><i>Perhaps you longed for greatness or for self-expression&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>But you were an agent of grace to me.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what you thought as you debated the Constitution that would make me a free woman in a free land.<\/p>\n<p><i>Maybe you had mighty ideals of how a country should be ruled&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>But you were an agent of grace to me.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what you thought as you passed my resume along after a teal-suited interview.<\/p>\n<p><i>Were you just doing a favor?&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>But you were an agent of grace to me.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what you thought as you built the road that transports me safely to Grand Island and back.<\/p>\n<p><i>Maybe you were just getting the job done&#8211;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>But you were an agent of grace to me.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><em>Common grace, bestowed freely<br \/>\nThe grace unexplained<br \/>\nWielded through conduits unsuspecting<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Unbelievers, agents of God&#8217;s grace to me.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what you thought you were doing when you sang the chorus that impressed me with wonder at God&#8217;s reign. Performing, probably&#8211; But you were an agent of grace to me. I wonder what you thought as you wrote the books that touched my heart, stimulated my mind, moved me to give glory to &#8230; <a title=\"Agents of Grace\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110513-7001.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agents of Grace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,500],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}