{"id":491,"date":"2012-02-02T18:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=491"},"modified":"2012-02-02T18:43:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:43:04","slug":"he-heard-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"He heard me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I hit publish on my last post, I ran out the door to pick up Paul from work, just like I do every day.<\/p>\n<p>As I was driving, <em>Strong Enough<\/em> by Matthew West came on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to lie and say it pulled me out of this emotional pit I&#8217;ve fallen into.\u00c2\u00a0 Or that it suddenly made me feel like everything is going to be okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Or even that it prevented me from almost bursting into tears in the middle of a crowded grocery store not thirty minutes later, as I told Paul all the things I wrote on my blog today.<\/p>\n<p>But, at least for those four minutes and three seconds, it did make me feel like even though I meant to blog as though no one was reading,\u00c2\u00a0He heard me.<\/p>\n<p>And for that I&#8217;m thankful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>You must, You must think I&#8217;m strong<br \/>\nTo give me what I&#8217;m going through<br \/>\nWell forgive me, forgive me if I&#8217;m wrong<br \/>\nBut this looks like more than I can do<br \/>\nOn my own<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I know I&#8217;m not strong enough<br \/>\nTo be everything that I&#8217;m supposed to be<br \/>\nI give up<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not strong enough<br \/>\nHands of mercy won&#8217;t You cover me?<br \/>\nLord right now I&#8217;m asking You to be<br \/>\nStrong enough<br \/>\nFor the both of us<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Well maybe, maybe that&#8217;s the point<br \/>\nTo reach the point of giving up<br \/>\nCause when I&#8217;m finally, finally at rock bottom<br \/>\nWell that&#8217;s when I start looking up<br \/>\nAnd reaching out<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cause I&#8217;m broken down to nothing<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m still holding onto the one thing<br \/>\nYou are God and You are strong<br \/>\nWhen I am weak<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I can do all things<br \/>\nThrough Christ who gives me strength<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have to be<br \/>\nStrong enough<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I hit publish on my last post, I ran out the door to pick up Paul from work, just like I do every day. As I was driving, Strong Enough by Matthew West came on the radio. I&#8217;m not going to lie and say it pulled me out of this emotional pit I&#8217;ve fallen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrically-speaking","category-navel-gazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/transcended.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}