{"id":7733,"date":"2018-02-20T06:50:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2018\/02\/20\/gray-days\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T17:54:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:54:34","slug":"gray-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2018\/02\/20\/gray-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday morning, I posted the words to the hymn &#8220;<em>O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go&#8221; <\/em>after hearing it on KNVBC.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning, I read the following devotional, from <em>Words of Comfort and Cheer, <\/em>which gave a glimpse into the life of the author, George Matheson, during the time he wrote the hymn. Knowing a little more about the background of a song makes it more meaningful, wouldn&#8217;t you agree? The poem toward the end of the devotional is actually the second verse of the hymn. When I read stories such as these it often compels me to look inwardly as I ask myself, &#8220;What am I doing with MY gray days?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7732\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2481.jpg?resize=960%2C1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2481.jpg?w=3024&amp;ssl=1 3024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2481.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2481.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2481.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2481.jpg?w=2880 2880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday morning, I posted the words to the hymn &#8220;O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go&#8221; after hearing it on KNVBC. Yesterday morning, I read the following devotional, from Words of Comfort and Cheer, which gave a glimpse into the life of the author, George Matheson, during the time he wrote the hymn. Knowing a little more about the background of a song makes it more meaningful, wouldn&#8217;t you agree? The poem toward the end of the devotional is actually the second verse of the hymn. When I read stories such as these it often compels me to look inwardly as I ask myself, &#8220;What am I doing with MY gray days?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,26,73,23,7,42,46,6,11,72,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comfort","category-courage","category-discouragement","category-grace","category-growing","category-hope","category-patience","category-perseverance","category-song","category-strength","category-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-20J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9526,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions\/9526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}