{"id":26689,"date":"2015-07-14T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T04:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=26689"},"modified":"2015-07-13T18:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T22:40:42","slug":"sow-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/14\/sow-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sow Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I can see her now, her weathered skin<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Old straw hat and crooked grin<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And she said child, let&#8217;s make this garden grow.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Let&#8217;s till the soil, and pull some weeds<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And here&#8217;s your bag of precious seeds<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> &#8216;Cause grandma&#8217;s got a secret you should know<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You always reap exactly what you sow<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Sow mercy<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sow grace<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sow kindness<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sow faith<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Words are like water, sprinkled with love<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You will harvest all your heart&#8217;s been dreaming of<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Sow mercy<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">We knelt right there and she took my hand<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That patch of dirt was holy land<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And she said child I learned this long ago<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Oh, you can bless or curse<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You can live or die<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You choose the crop you want in life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> That&#8217;s the greatest secret Grandma knows<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You always reap exactly what you sow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">&#8216;Cause one day, God forbid, you act a fool<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> And fall down hard and fast, &#8217;cause life is cruel<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> If you ever reached to help a friend<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> A hand you held might lift you up again<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> What goes around comes back around you know<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> You always reap exactly what you sow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJG9saXsG9w?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Gaither Vocal Band<\/em><br \/>\nWritten by\u00a0Reba Rambo-McGuire and Donny McGuire<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What a great reminder! \u00a0I know I can get so weighed down with what others are doing or saying&#8230;and become just like them. \u00a0I can act hateful, impatient, moody, negative and all the stuff that goes along with it. \u00a0But then I hear a song like this and it slaps me in the face. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Sow mercy, sow grace, sow kindness, sow faith<\/em><\/span>. \u00a0But what does that look like in our everyday walk?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Sow mercy<\/em> <\/span><\/strong>can be when we deserve to be fired, but we are given a second chance<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>Sow grace<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>can be when we find out someone has wronged us and they seek (and receive) forgiveness<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Sow kindness<\/strong><\/em><\/span> can be giving just a simple cup of water to a stranger or to a child<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Sow faith<\/strong><\/em><\/span> can be supporting a friend with kind words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let&#8217;s consider the efforts of our forefathers today. \u00a0They endeavored to create a nation, under God, to be the best they knew how to create. \u00a0By us looking at how we live and how we interact, we can be stronger advocates for sowing mercy, grace, kindness and faith in our culture. We can pray. \u00a0We can bless our nation or we can curse it. \u00a0I choose to bless it and ask God to bless it by asking for a revival. \u00a0One person at a time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can see her now, her weathered skin Old straw hat and crooked grin And she said child, let&#8217;s make this garden grow. Let&#8217;s till the soil, and pull some weeds And here&#8217;s your bag of precious seeds &#8216;Cause grandma&#8217;s got a secret you should know You always reap exactly what you sow Sow mercy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[9154,5264,1287,425,4932,9153,9155,9156,1071],"class_list":["post-26689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-donny-mc-guire","tag-gaither-vocal-band","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-reba-rambo-mc-guire","tag-sow-mercy","tag-sowing-seeds-of-mercy-grace-kindness-faith","tag-tina-marin","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6Wt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26689"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26742,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26689\/revisions\/26742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}