{"id":430,"date":"2004-05-13T08:29:39","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T13:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-01-08T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T19:24:43","slug":"a-mothers-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this poem a long, long time ago. I don&#8217;t know its source. I calligraphied it onto a piece of parchment, framed it, and keep it hanging where I can see it. But I&#8217;ve never been able to track down the author&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lord of all pots and pans and things,<br \/>\nSince I&#8217;ve no time to be<br \/>\nA saint by doing lovely things<br \/>\nOr watching late with thee,<br \/>\nOr storming heaven&#8217;s gates.<br \/>\nMake me a saint by getting meals<br \/>\nAnd washing up the plates.<\/p>\n<p>Although I must have Martha hands,<br \/>\nI have a Mary mind;<br \/>\nAnd when I black the boots and shoes<br \/>\nThy sandals, Lord, I find.<br \/>\nI think of how they trod the earth<br \/>\nWhat time I scrub the floor;<br \/>\nAccept this meditation, Lord,<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t time for more.<\/p>\n<p>Warm all the kitchen with thy love,<br \/>\nAnd light it with thy peace,<br \/>\nForgive me all my worrying<br \/>\nAnd make all grumbling cease.<br \/>\nThou who didst love to give men food<br \/>\nIn room or by the sea<br \/>\nAccept this service that I do&#8212;<br \/>\nI do it unto thee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this poem a long, long time ago. I don&#8217;t know its source. I calligraphied it onto a piece of parchment, framed it, and keep it hanging where I can see it. But I&#8217;ve never been able to track down the author&#8217;s name. Lord of all pots and pans and things, Since I&#8217;ve no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[376,8,111],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-religion","tag-poem","tag-religion","tag-work-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspirations.editormum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}