{"id":3420,"date":"2010-12-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2022-03-10T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:57:52","slug":"contemplation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/contemplation\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplation<br \/>\nBy Hal Haralson<\/p>\n<p>I sought God as a child.<br \/>\n&quot;Now I lay me down to sleep.&quot;<br \/>\nSimple trust.<br \/>\nI found Him there&#8230;<br \/>\nBut sought Him more.<\/p>\n<p>I sought God as a youth.<br \/>\nFrantic searching.<br \/>\nFearful surrender.<br \/>\nI found Him there&#8230;<br \/>\nBut sought Him more.<\/p>\n<p>I sought God in His Word.<br \/>\nInstruction. Forgiveness.<br \/>\nComfort. Guidance.<br \/>\nI found Him there&#8230;<br \/>\nBut sought Him more.<br \/>\nI sought God in others<br \/>\nShared love. Pain.<br \/>\nSearching. Joy.<br \/>\nI found Him there&#8230;<br \/>\nBut sought Him more.<\/p>\n<p>I sought God in worship.<br \/>\nBroken bread. Spoken<br \/>\nWord. Songs of praise.<br \/>\nI found Him there&#8230;<br \/>\nBut sought Him more.<\/p>\n<p>I sought God within.<br \/>\n&quot;You`re home my child&quot;&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;My home,&quot; He said.<br \/>\n&quot;You`ve found the door.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n[Hal Haralson practices law and religion in Austin, Texas. He is a frequent contributor to Christian Ethics Today.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplation By Hal Haralson I sought God as a child. &quot;Now I lay me down to sleep.&quot; Simple ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35,25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianethicstoday.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}