{"id":292,"date":"2022-02-01T15:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ronhampton.flywheelsites.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2022-02-12T17:29:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:29:21","slug":"to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"To Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To Be<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The list was long as I started my day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The \u201cto do\u2019s\u201d seemed to never end,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As the overwhelming fear captured my thoughts,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I pondered just where to begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He interrupted my thoughts with His still small voice,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cMy son, why do you worry so?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My reply, came quickly as I poured out my heart,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cLord, so much to do, so many places to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cLet\u2019s look at your list, for I\u2019m sure I can help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And then quickly he said, \u201cI see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cHere is your problem and it\u2019s easy to fix,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s all \u2018to do\u2019s\u2019, not a single \u2018to be\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d I asked him with wonder,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He responded with patience and grace,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cStart your day with a \u2018to be\u2019 list,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the \u2018to do\u2019s\u2019 will fall into place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be loving, be kind, be tender hearted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be forgiving, be filled and be blessed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be faithful in starting your day with me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be sure I will give you rest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Believe in everything I have told you,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And simply begin with me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s easy to get caught up with things to do,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But first, be what I called you to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; color: #e6b500;\"><em>ron hampton, 2002 &#8211; SDG<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Be The list was long as I started my day. The \u201cto do\u2019s\u201d seemed to never end, As the overwhelming fear captured my thoughts, I pondered just where to begin. He interrupted my thoughts with His still small voice, \u201cMy son, why do you worry so?\u201d My reply, came quickly as I poured out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tohimtheglory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}