{"id":5545,"date":"2015-11-03T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2015-11-03T00:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:04:03","slug":"gethsemane-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/gethsemane-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gethsemane (a poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"

GETHSEMANE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The image of a cross I see
\nin the tear of Him who would die for me,
\na tear, or is it blood, I cannot tell.
\nUnderneath the stars is He,
\nfallen in such agony,
\nthen His eyes meet mine.
\nCould it be He is telling me
\nthat He is going to Calvary for me?
\nI glimpse again the tear
\nand am surprised to hear
\na voice that sounds like mine.
\nI hear the lies that once I told,
\nand feel the fears of long ago,
\nthey seem so near to this man’s tear.
\nBut how could I expect to know
\nthe depth, the passion of His soul
\nas lies and fears would soon be His alone.
\nThrough vision blurred I understood
\nforgiveness like I never would
\nhad I not been there in the garden.
\nHe rose and stared at a distant cloud,
\nand saw a trial, a death, a shroud;
\nI cried aloud! Could it be this was for me?
\nHe who knew no sin, my cross would bear?
\nHe who never lied, a crown of thorns would wear?
\nThe Man became a Lamb of sacrifice for me?
\nHeaven and Hell mixed with the blood and sweat.
\nJudgment and mercy in Jesus met.
\nOh, the joy and fear of that precious tear!<\/p>\n

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GETHSEMANE The image of a cross I see in the tear of Him who would die for me, a tear, or is it blood, I cannot tell. Underneath the stars is He, fallen in such agony, then His eyes meet mine. Could it be He is telling me that He is going to Calvary for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}