{"id":2794,"date":"2024-01-19T02:33:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2024-01-19T02:33:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:33:59","slug":"evensong-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1023\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240118_213246-1023x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240118_213246-1023x1024.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240118_213246-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240118_213246-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240118_213246-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240118_213246-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/PSX_20240118_213246-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a famous psalm \u2014 the hit \u201cMake a Joyful Noise\u201d song \u2014 though that same phrase was used a couple of psalms ago. \u201cServe the Lord with gladness; \/ Come before His presence with singing.\u201d Maybe that\u2019s why Amish singing and quaint Sacred Harp singing are done a cappella.<br><br>\u201cWe are His people and the sheep of His pasture.\u201d There\u2019s that old sheep\/shepherd metaphor again \u2014 like Isaiah\u2019s \u201cAll we like sheep have gone astray,\u201d and the 23rd Psalm\u2019s \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd.\u201d All you gotta do is watch the TV news or read the paper, and, yep, we\u2019re sheep.<br><br>The psalm closes with a number of religious buzzwords: thanksgiving, praise, bless, mercy and truth. Using buzzwords can save time, but I wonder if people miss the point of them after a time. So are buzzwords like sheep as well? Maybe the wooliest buzzwords should be more like bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a famous psalm \u2014 the hit \u201cMake a Joyful Noise\u201d song \u2014 though that same phrase was used a couple of psalms ago. \u201cServe the Lord with gladness; \/ Come before His presence with singing.\u201d Maybe that\u2019s why Amish singing and quaint Sacred Harp singing are done a cappella. \u201cWe are His people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 100<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2795,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}