{"id":10470,"date":"2015-01-17T10:06:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2015-01-17T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T18:06:36","slug":"a-motto-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2015\/01\/17\/a-motto-to-live-by\/","title":{"rendered":"A Motto to Live By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Misty-Rest-Stop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Misty-Rest-Stop-650x393.jpg\" alt=\"Misty-Rest-Stop\" width=\"650\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Misty-Rest-Stop.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Misty-Rest-Stop-115x70.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>The photo&#8217;s not about today&#8217;s meditation, rather a mood shot of our drive north. We&#8217;re presently in Oregon for our annual art-making hiatus. Perhaps the prayer at right will help with all these creative efforts, too. And yours.\u00a0<em>(The quote: Jesus, Mark 10:27)<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><em>With men, this is impossible,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But with God, all things are possible.<\/em><br \/>\nSuch a saying,<br \/>\nuttered by\u00a0one who should know.<br \/>\nCould be \/ should be a\u00a0motto for life.<br \/>\nParticularly the last part . . . but the first part too:<br \/>\nAn acknowledgement of lack being the first stage\u00a0for help.<\/p>\n<p><em>All things, with God, are possible.<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">All things<\/span> . . . nothing that\u2019s not . . . Wow !<br \/>\nWow, wow, and wow ! ! !<\/p>\n<p>So, Lord, let me get asking,<br \/>\nFirst recognizing my lacks,<br \/>\nThen your lack of lacks.<br \/>\nTurn loose my imagination,<br \/>\nUnleash my faith.<br \/>\nLeave me to live in the now,<br \/>\nWonderfully dependent, moment by moment conversing,<br \/>\nMy asking, you giving.<br \/>\nBoth of us doing what we do best.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Self, stand back,<br \/>\nFor who knows what might happen?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one we&#8217;ve heard before, but if we really take it seriously, could change all things. And why not, all being possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10470"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10481,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions\/10481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}