{"id":2966,"date":"2017-03-11T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T22:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2017-03-11T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T22:10:40","slug":"slow-me-down-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/?p=2966","title":{"rendered":"Slow me down, Lord."},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 18\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Slow me down, Lord.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Steady my harried pace<br \/>\nwith a vision of the eternal reach of time.<\/p>\n<p>Give me, amidst the confusions of my day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.<\/p>\n<p>Break the tensions of my nerves<br \/>\nwith the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>Help me to know<br \/>\nthe magical restoring power of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Teach me the art<br \/>\nof taking minute vacations, of slowing down to look at a flower,<br \/>\nto chat with an old friend or make a new one, to pat a stray dog,<br \/>\nto watch a spider build a web;<br \/>\nto smile at a child,<br \/>\nor read a few lines from a good book.<\/p>\n<p>Remind me each day<br \/>\nthat the race is not always to the swift, that there is more to life<br \/>\nthan increasing its\u2019 speed.<\/p>\n<p>Let me look upward<br \/>\ninto the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.<\/p>\n<p>Slow me down, Lord,<br \/>\nand inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life\u2019s enduring values that I may grow toward the stars<br \/>\nof my greater destiny.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>~Wilfert A. Peterson\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow me down, Lord.<br \/>\nEase the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sacristy","category-prayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalaltarguildassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}