{"id":2834,"date":"2011-06-01T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2011-06-01T23:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T06:04:43","slug":"empty-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/empty-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empty Vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favourite prayers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Behold, Lord, an empty vessel that needs to be filled.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> My Lord, fill it.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am weak in the faith; strengthen me.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am cold in love; warm me and make me fervent, that my love may go out to my neighbor.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I do not have a strong and firm faith; at times I doubt and am unable to trust you altogether.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> O Lord, help me.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Strengthen my faith and trust in you.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In you I have sealed the treasure of all I have.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am poor; you are rich and came to be merciful to the poor.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am a sinner; you are upright.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> With me, there is an abundance of sin; in you is the fullness of righteousness.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Therefore I will remain with you, of whom I can receive, but to whom I may not give.<\/em> <em>Amen<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/>This was written by Martin Luther.<br \/>\nI think I&#8217;ll give him this one&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favourite prayers: Behold, Lord, an empty vessel that needs to be filled. My Lord, fill it. I am weak in the faith; strengthen me. I am cold in love; warm me and make me fervent, that my love may go out to my neighbor. I do not have a strong and firm faith; at times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[236,118],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-martin-luther","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}