{"id":3927,"date":"2012-03-01T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2012-03-01T01:05:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:05:13","slug":"light-in-the-depths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2012\/03\/light-in-the-depths.html","title":{"rendered":"Light in the Depths"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Daily Prayer<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/309\/2012\/03\/LightintheDepths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3928\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/309\/2012\/03\/LightintheDepths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Down here<br \/>\nwhere only the lantern-fish swim,<br \/>\ntoo deep for sun to penetrate,<br \/>\nI see a glint.<\/p>\n<p>It is You, reaching for me<br \/>\nthrough the churning seas,<br \/>\na hand to pull me back to the surface<br \/>\nand into the light.<\/p>\n<p>I had made myself a home here,<br \/>\namong the shipwrecks,<br \/>\nthinking I&#8217;d never return to the shore.<br \/>\nBut You saved me,<br \/>\nhauled me heaving onto dry land,<br \/>\nblinded my eyes with illuminating love.<\/p>\n<p>How do Your arms reach so very far?<br \/>\nI can only wonder at Your mercy.<br \/>\nYou blow life into me;<br \/>\nI am lighter than air.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0&#8211; Lori Strawn, <a title=\"Prayables.com\" href=\"http:\/\/prayables.com\">Prayables<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Prayer Down here where only the lantern-fish swim, too deep for sun to penetrate, I see a glint. 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