{"id":29554,"date":"2023-02-24T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T18:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/?p=29554"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:36:08","slug":"hope-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/hope-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hope<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You don\u2019t ask a fish to shed its scales and take to the sky,<\/span><\/p>\n Nor do you ask the flowers to sing a chorus<\/span><\/p>\n Yet you ask me to have hope?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n But in my heart of hearts I know<\/span><\/p>\n You called blind men to see\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And deaf men to hear,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The lame to leap\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n and me to be one of Yours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So if you ask me to hope, what can I do?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I will no longer breathe in the murky waters of the deep,<\/span><\/p>\n But will exchange my scales for wings.<\/span><\/p>\n I won\u2019t bloom in silence,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But will praise you in every wilting and florescence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I will lay my fears aside\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And hope.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brianna Voltmer<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hope You don\u2019t ask a fish to shed its scales and take to the sky, Nor do you ask the flowers to sing a chorus Yet you ask me to have hope? But in my heart of hearts I know You called blind men to see\u00a0 And deaf men to hear,\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2431,759],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n