{"id":5361,"date":"2017-03-06T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:34:53","slug":"spear-in-your-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/spear-in-your-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Spear in Your Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Spear in Your Side<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">by:\u00a0<strong>St Mark Youth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every time. Every time&#8230;<br \/>\nI tend to ignore your wounds, your sores.<br \/>\nI pick the spear, yet I&#8217;ve been there before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I hide from your face as I run to my shame<br \/>\nYet the next day your goodness I always proclaim<br \/>\nBowing down I utter your name<br \/>\nPraying that kindly You&#8217;ll forget my blame<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You are good<br \/>\nYou are merciful<br \/>\nYou are kind<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet as I momentarily forget these gifts<br \/>\nThe truth of Your crucifixion I must reminisce<br \/>\nThe spear that pierced your innocent side<br \/>\nIs the spear that I push further with my pride<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am Pilate<br \/>\nI am the soldier<br \/>\nI am a sinner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teach me Lord to put down the spear<br \/>\nTeach me Lord to live in your fear<br \/>\nAs I gaze O Lord at thy Passion<br \/>\nAllow me to act in Christian fashion<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Put down the spear<br \/>\nLive in His fear<br \/>\nHe will hold you dear<br \/>\nAnd make your conscience\u00a0clear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spear in Your Side by:\u00a0St Mark Youth Every time. Every time&#8230; I tend to ignore your wounds, your sores. I pick the spear, yet I&#8217;ve been there before. I hide from your face as I run to my shame Yet the next day your goodness I always proclaim Bowing down I utter your name Praying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/spear-in-your-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spear in Your Side&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}