{"id":5418,"date":"2016-05-12T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T17:14:10","slug":"old-grey-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/old-grey-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Grey Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-grey-prayers-Cover-500x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5420 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-grey-prayers-Cover-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"old-grey-prayers--Cover-500x500\" width=\"410\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-grey-prayers-Cover-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-grey-prayers-Cover-500x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/old-grey-prayers-Cover-500x500-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOld Grey Prayers,<\/em> by Bernard Thorogood is a new collection of poetry, prayer and reflections on growing older available from the URC Shop now for just \u00a34.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ripeness is all<br \/>\n<\/strong>Giver of life, lover of life,<br \/>\nyou seek life in all its fullness for all of us;<br \/>\nthat the seeds may germinate;<br \/>\nthe buds may blossom;<br \/>\nthe trees grow tall;<br \/>\nand the children&#8217;s cries become the adult song.<\/p>\n<p>Lord of life, we rejoice in all talents fulfilled,<br \/>\nin all loves matured, and all faith sustained.<\/p>\n<p>But for ourselves, can we rest on the harvest of the years?<br \/>\nNo more ambitions to fulfill?<br \/>\nMay we say that our race is over?<br \/>\nYour grandchildren know that you have done enough \u2013<br \/>\nand God knows you are tired.<br \/>\nThe harvest of your life is safely gathered in.<br \/>\nToday you can sing the harvest home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Grey Prayers, by Bernard Thorogood is a new collection of poetry, prayer and reflections on growing older available from the URC Shop now for just \u00a34. Ripeness is all Giver of life, lover of life, you seek life in all its fullness for all of us; that the seeds may germinate; the buds may &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/old-grey-prayers\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Grey Prayers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}