{"id":2084,"date":"2025-05-02T14:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-brief-prayer\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:52:34","slug":"a-brief-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-brief-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"a brief prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he sits at his computer writing this<br>\npoem spiritual energy streaming into his head<\/p>\n<p>he hasn\u2019t needed to meditate in decades<br>\nthe energy always streams upward in him<br>\nas if his existence is a continuous meditation<\/p>\n<p>his spiritual work now is comprised of<br>\nbriefly praying for all the people in this<br>\nworld who are suffering and all those<\/p>\n<p>who are brutally taken out of this world<br>\nand all those who die so young that<br>\nthey never got a chance to live full lives<\/p>\n<p>then he asks Christ to do whatever is best<br>\nwhen this energy that has flowed up in him<br>\nsince age twenty seven when it awakened<\/p>\n<p>in the great white light and a feeling he was<br>\nentering cosmic consciousness<\/p>\n<p>before he pulled out of the meditation frightened<br>\nand astonished by unexpected higher consciousness experience<\/p>\n<p>he ends the brief prayer with the Lord\u2019s prayer<br>\nbecause he believes that prayer has protective power<\/p>\n<p>and today he will post a poem on this blog that<br>\nwill explain why<\/p>\n<p>bob boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he sits at his computer writing this poem spiritual energy streaming into his head he hasn\u2019t needed to meditate in decades the energy always streams upward in him as if his existence is a continuous meditation his spiritual work now is comprised of briefly praying for all the people in this world who are suffering&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-brief-prayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}