{"id":2908,"date":"2025-11-14T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/a-miraculous-tender-mercy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:14:09","slug":"a-miraculous-tender-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-miraculous-tender-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Miraculous Tender Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an Art Bell\u2019s Ghost to Ghost<br>\nbroadcast, part of his old<br>\nCoast to Coast radio shows<br>\nnow on YouTube<\/p>\n<p>a woman wrote in about how<br>\nin her wild and crazy younger days<br>\nshe was driving out of control<br>\nhad been drinking alcohol<\/p>\n<p>ran over old woman with her car<br>\nwho appeared from behind a bus<\/p>\n<p>she sprang out of her car<br>\nrushed over to the woman<br>\nsaid she was sorry<br>\ndraped her jacket around<br>\nher, and the woman looked<br>\ninto her eyes as she died<\/p>\n<p>she was charged with manslaughter<br>\nsent to jail for years<br>\nshe never got over<br>\naccidentally killing the old woman<\/p>\n<p>many years later, living alone<br>\nshe was about to kill herself<br>\nthe guilt still too much too bare<br>\nas she thought about killing herself<br>\nshe felt a presence behind her<br>\nthat began holding her<\/p>\n<p>she knew it was the gentle spirit<br>\nof the old woman<br>\nsaw a flash of her face<br>\nand she felt no fear<br>\nthe old woman\u2019s spirit comforted her<br>\nwith forgiveness that purged all the guilt<br>\nand sorrow out of the forlorn woman<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes in this<br>\nworld of suffering and sorrow<br>\nmiracles like this happen<br>\nmiraculous, tender mercies.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an Art Bell\u2019s Ghost to Ghost broadcast, part of his old Coast to Coast radio shows now on YouTube a woman wrote in about how in her wild and crazy younger days she was driving out of control had been drinking alcohol ran over old woman with her car who appeared from behind a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/a-miraculous-tender-mercy\/\">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\/2908"}],"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=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}