{"id":3642,"date":"2008-06-25T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/with-or-without-god-a-song-for-gretta-vosper\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T19:42:00","slug":"with-or-without-god-a-song-for-gretta-vosper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/with-or-without-god-a-song-for-gretta-vosper.html","title":{"rendered":"With Or Without God (a song for Gretta Vosper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%\"><u>With or without God<\/u><\/span> (with apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/lyrics.interference.com\/u2\/lyrics\/albums\/joshua-tree\/with-or-without-you.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">U2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>See the stone set in God\u2019s eyes<br>See the thorn twist in God\u2019s side<br>I wait for God<\/p>\n<p>Sleight of hand and twist of fate<br>On a bed of nails God makes me wait<br>And I wait without God<\/p>\n<p>With or without God<br>With or without God<\/p>\n<p>Through the storm we reach the shore<br>God gives it all but I want more<br>And I\u2019m waiting for God<\/p>\n<p>With or without God<br>With or without God<br>I can\u2019t live<br>With or without God<\/p>\n<p>And you give yourself away<br>And you give yourself away<br>And you give<br>And you give<br>And you give yourself away<\/p>\n<p>My hands are tied<br>My body bruised, God\u2019s got me with<br>Nothing to win and<br>Nothing left to lose<\/p>\n<p>And God gives Godself away<br>And God gives Godself away<br>And God gives<br>And God gives<br>And God gives Godself away<\/p>\n<p>With or without God<br>With or without God<br>I can\u2019t live<br>With or without God<\/p>\n<p>With or without God<br>With or without God<br>I can\u2019t live<br>With or without God<br>With or without God<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7870506725907170176?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With or without God (with apologies to U2) See the stone set in God\u2019s eyesSee the thorn twist in God\u2019s sideI wait for God Sleight of hand and twist of fateOn a bed of nails God makes me waitAnd I wait without God With or without GodWith or without God Through the storm we reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>With Or Without God (a song for Gretta Vosper)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With or without God (with apologies to U2)See the stone set in God&#039;s eyesSee the thorn twist in God&#039;s sideI wait for GodSleight of hand and twist of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/with-or-without-god-a-song-for-gretta-vosper.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"With Or Without God (a song for Gretta Vosper)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With or without God (with apologies to U2)See the stone set in God&#039;s eyesSee the thorn twist in God&#039;s sideI wait for GodSleight of hand and twist of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/06\/with-or-without-god-a-song-for-gretta-vosper.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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