{"id":6966,"date":"2017-02-05T18:50:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T22:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2017-02-05T18:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T22:50:05","slug":"faltering-steps-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=6966","title":{"rendered":"Faltering Steps &#8211; A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Faltering Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now through earth&#8217;s gray and solemn vale<br \/>\nThese faltering steps I take<br \/>\nWhile Heaven seems hidden beyond misty shrouds,<br \/>\nFears attend each breath.<br \/>\nHave You not said that You would lead?<br \/>\nLord, grant faith unto my heart,<br \/>\nThat seeing not I would yet believe,<br \/>\nPressing on to follow You.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Jesus, Lord what tears You shed,<br \/>\nSuch lonely days You trod<br \/>\nUpon the path ordained of old,<br \/>\nOf sorrow and sacrifice.<br \/>\nEven in Your darkest forsaken moment,<br \/>\nAs crying, &#8220;My God!  My God!&#8221;<br \/>\nStill You bowed Your heart to Your Father&#8217;s will,<br \/>\nTrusting even into death.<\/p>\n<p>By Sam Snyder<br \/>\nFebruary 12, 2001\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20010212_falteringSteps.jpg\" alt=\"20010212_falteringSteps\" width=\"700\" height=\"909\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20010212_falteringSteps.jpg 700w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20010212_falteringSteps-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faltering Steps Now through earth&#8217;s gray and solemn vale These faltering steps I take While Heaven seems hidden beyond misty shrouds, Fears attend each breath. Have You not said that You would lead? Lord, grant faith unto my heart, That seeing not I would yet believe, Pressing on to follow You. Oh Jesus, Lord what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=6966\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Faltering Steps &#8211; A Poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}