{"id":2944,"date":"2024-03-22T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T01:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2024-03-22T01:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T01:05:24","slug":"evensong-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 145"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20170312_160631-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20170312_160631-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20170312_160631-768x797.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20170312_160631.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm reminds me of that maddening call and response I hear all the time in church: \u201cGod is good \u2026 all the time. \/ And all the time \u2026 God is good.\u201d It is maddening because it is not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This psalm is 21 verses of how mighty, glorious, splendid, majestic, wondrous, awesome, great, good, righteous, gracious, compassionate, patient, merciful and powerful YHWH seemed to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to the call and response, the bit I question is the \u201call the time\u201d part. As I\u2019ve said before, the cosmos is both good and bad all the time \u2014 what\u2019s good for me may be bad for you. That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, while YHWH might have been all those adjectives to the Old Hebrews including kings David and Solomon, He was just the opposite to any innocents who died at the hands of His Israelites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This psalm reminds me of that maddening call and response I hear all the time in church: \u201cGod is good \u2026 all the time. \/ And all the time \u2026 God is good.\u201d It is maddening because it is not true. This psalm is 21 verses of how mighty, glorious, splendid, majestic, wondrous, awesome, great, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 145<\/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-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","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=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2945,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}