{"id":4869,"date":"2016-04-28T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2016-04-27T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T06:15:09","slug":"neither-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2016\/04\/neither-am-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Neither Am I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With one hand He gives, with the other He takes<br \/>\nFilling and emptying the soul,<br \/>\nCarving out receptivity to His Name<br \/>\nWith each deft blow of His soul-sculpturing hands.<\/p>\n<p>I am never full, nor ever bereft. Neither am I,<br \/>\nBut all is He.<br \/>\nI am His form. No other form have I<br \/>\nAnd it is to the shelter of His Name He guides me<br \/>\nRegardless of how He shapes me.<\/p>\n<p>God wants me to want only Him;<br \/>\nTo have no place to rest outside of His Heart,<br \/>\nTo hold nothing in mind without the thought of Him.<\/p>\n<p>To this He surely bends my will to His own,<br \/>\nSilently, so that no one,<br \/>\nNot even I see His hands hard at work.<br \/>\nBut I cry out nevertheless,<br \/>\nLet it be done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one hand He gives, with the other He takes Filling and emptying the soul, Carving out receptivity to His Name With each deft blow of His soul-sculpturing hands. I am never full, nor ever bereft. Neither am I, But all is He. I am His form. No other form have I And it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[672,510],"tags":[2101,156,92],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changetransformation","category-poetry-poem","tag-fullness-of-heart","tag-gods-will","tag-surrender"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neither Am I - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2016\/04\/neither-am-i.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neither Am I - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With one hand He gives, with the other He takes Filling and emptying the soul, Carving out receptivity to His Name With each deft blow of His soul-sculpturing hands. 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