{"id":470,"date":"2025-02-27T20:20:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-02-27T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:07","slug":"keep-seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Keep Seeking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thinking about when you cry out to God, possibly under great duress, and he seems absent. Why would he do\/allow that? Why would he make us ask him again and again? Or why would he answer &#8220;no&#8221; to a begging for relief?  This poem isn&#8217;t about all the reasons why he might <em>(I can think of more; perhaps I shall write poems on them too)<\/em>, but it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> about one of them from my own life. <br><br>(My feast example was inspired by a memorable scene in C. S. Lewis&#8217;s book <em>The Last Battle<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/poem-KEEP-SEEKING.png?resize=262%2C103&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-471\" style=\"width:555px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about when you cry out to God, possibly under great duress, and he seems absent. Why would he do\/allow that? Why would he make us ask him again and again? Or why would he answer &#8220;no&#8221; to a begging for relief? This poem isn&#8217;t about all the reasons why he might (I can think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}