1
\nWhen Christ was lifted from the earth His arms stretched out above
\nThrough every culture, every birth, to draw an answering love.<\/p>\n
2
\nStill east and west His love extends and always, near or far,
\nHe calls and claims us as His friends and loves us as we are.<\/p>\n
3
\nWhere generation, class, or race divides us to our shame,
\nHe sees not labels but a face, a person and a name.<\/p>\n
4
\nThus freely loved, tho\u2019 fully known, may I in Christ be free
\nTo welcome and accept His own as Christ accepted me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 When Christ was lifted from the earth His arms stretched out above Through every culture, every birth, to draw an answering love. 2 Still east and west His love extends and always, near or far, He calls and claims us as His friends and loves us as we are. 3 Where generation, class, or race divides us to our shame, He sees not labels but a face, a person and a name. 4 Thus freely loved, tho\u2019 fully known, may I in Christ be free To welcome and accept His own as Christ accepted me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-501-600","category-christian-life","category-love-for-one-another"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}