{"id":8852,"date":"2011-11-26T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2016-02-13T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T14:42:03","slug":"you-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/11\/26\/you-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John Piper | Nov 24, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my life.<br \/>\nThank you for my precious wife.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my girl.<br \/>\nThank you for this deep-sea pearl.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my sons,<br \/>\nFathers, wives, the little ones.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the church I serve,<br \/>\nStaff and friends I don&#8217;t deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my birth,<br \/>\nWho can measure parents&#8217; worth?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for the schools,<br \/>\nMental tools, and passion fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my eyes,<br \/>\nWonders of the earth and skies.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my ears,<br \/>\nPriceless music through the years.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my friends,<br \/>\nComrades, care, and common ends.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for the books,<br \/>\nDeeper currents, distant looks.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for my home,<br \/>\nSweetest pocket of shalom.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the maple tree,<br \/>\nThe swing, the yellow canopy.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the neighborhood,<br \/>\nThe interwoven bad and good.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for the tears,<br \/>\nDying darkness yet appears.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for your word<br \/>\nSilver, honey, eaten, heard.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Father, for your Son,<br \/>\nStripes, the bruise, the mission done.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the Spirit too,<br \/>\nWakning, filling, giving You.<\/p>\n<p>Father, Father, can it be?<br \/>\nThank you for adopting me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2011 Desiring God, All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Piper | Nov 24, 2011 Thank you, Father, for my life. Thank you for my precious wife. Thank you, Father, for my girl. Thank you for this deep-sea pearl. Thank you, Father, for my sons, Fathers, wives, the little ones. Thank you for the church I serve, Staff and friends I don&#8217;t deserve&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}