{"id":4130,"date":"2017-11-04T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2017-11-04T04:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T04:05:19","slug":"the-church-of-the-quill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-church-of-the-quill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church Of The Quill"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Glendalough<\/a>
Glendalough in Wicklow from a trip in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\nIm not a great one for churches, unless visiting ruined ones! But I worship God in my own way… another of the restored poems to the site, this I think is from 1998 or so!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I, the sinner, in church I am not seen
\nBecause Im not missed, Im never asked where I\u2019ve been
\nFor I, few times my face in church has shown
\nAnd so, by those ho frequent it are not known.
\nBy those to whom I\u2019m unknown I’m not missed
\nAnd to be known to them I resist
\nBut do I than them, love God less?
\nAnd does he, them more than me bless?
\nI who formal prayers rarely say
\nI worship God: through stanzas of faith I pray
\nI worship in verse and to do so I will
\nPrar to God in the Church of the Quill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Im not a great one for churches, unless visiting ruined ones! But I worship God in my own way… another of the restored poems to the site, this I think is from 1998 or so! I, the sinner, in church I am not seen Because Im not missed, Im never …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3582,64],"tags":[1630,1648,524,3979,65,3978,2804,3975,527,3977,2072,440,712,3976],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-inspirational-poetry","tag-catholic","tag-church","tag-faith","tag-glendalough","tag-life-2","tag-mass","tag-pilgrimage","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-prayerlife","tag-reflection","tag-walk","tag-wicklow","tag-work-as-prayer","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-14C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":389,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/to-walk-in-nature-is-to-say-a-prayer\/","url_meta":{"origin":4130,"position":0},"title":"To Walk in Nature Is to Say A Prayer","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"29th May 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"To walk in nature is to say a prayer, - 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