{"id":7,"date":"2007-02-08T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/joseph\/2007\/02\/08\/a-meditation-by-john-henry-cardinal-ne"},"modified":"2007-02-08T22:13:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T03:13:40","slug":"a-meditation-by-john-henry-cardinal-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/2007\/02\/08\/a-meditation-by-john-henry-cardinal-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"A MEDITATION by John Henry Cardinal Newman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOD HAS CREATED ME<\/p>\n<p>God has created me<br \/>\nto do Him some definite service.<br \/>\nHe has committed some work to me<br \/>\nwhich He has not committed to another.<\/p>\n<p>I HAVE A MISSION<br \/>\nI may never know it in this life<br \/>\nbut I shall be told it in the next.<\/p>\n<p>I AM A LINK IN A CHAIN<br \/>\nA bond of connection between persons<br \/>\nHe has not created me for naught<br \/>\nI shall do good &#8212; I shall do His work<br \/>\nI shall be an angel of peace<br \/>\nA preacher of truth in my own place<br \/>\nwhile not intending it<br \/>\nif I do but keep his commandments.<\/p>\n<p>THEREFORE I WILL TRUST HIM<br \/>\nwhatever I am, I can never be thrown away<br \/>\nif I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him<br \/>\nin perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him<br \/>\nif I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.<\/p>\n<p>HE DOES NOTHING IN VAIN<br \/>\nHe knows what he is about<br \/>\nHe may take away my friends<br \/>\nHe may throw me among strangers<br \/>\nHe may make me feel desolate<br \/>\nmake my spirits sink<br \/>\nhide my future from me \u2013 still<\/p>\n<p>HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS ABOUT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOD HAS CREATED ME God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I HAVE A MISSION I may never know it in this life but I shall be told it in the next. I AM A LINK IN A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/joseph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}