{"id":12829,"date":"2016-11-21T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=12829"},"modified":"2016-11-21T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:59:39","slug":"verses-1-3-and-5-especially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/verses-1-3-and-5-especially\/","title":{"rendered":"Verses 1, 3, and 5 especially"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thou Gracious God, Whose Mercy Lends | The King&#039;s Singers &amp; The Tabernacle Choir\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K0I9KhBqbBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\">Thou gracious God, whose mercy lends<\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thou gracious God, whose mercy lends<br \/>\nthe light of home, the smile of friends,<br \/>\nour gathered flock thine arms enfold<br \/>\nas in the peaceful days of old.<\/p>\n<p>Wilt thou not hear us while we raise<br \/>\nin sweet accord of solemn praise<br \/>\nthe voices that have mingled long<br \/>\nin joyous flow of mirth and song?<\/p>\n<p>For all the blessings life has brought,<br \/>\nfor all its sorrowing hours have taught,<br \/>\nfor all we mourn, for all we keep,<br \/>\nthe hands we clasp, the loved that sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The noontide sunshine of the past,<br \/>\nthese brief, bright moments fading fast,<br \/>\nthe stars that gild our darkening years,<br \/>\nthe twilight ray from holier spheres.<\/p>\n<p>We thank thee, Father; let thy grace<br \/>\nour loving circle still embrace,<br \/>\nthy mercy shed its heavenly store,<br \/>\nthy peace be with us evermore.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Words: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., 1869<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thou gracious God, whose mercy lends Thou gracious God, whose mercy lends the light of home, the smile of friends, our gathered flock thine arms enfold as in the peaceful days of old. Wilt thou not hear us while we raise in sweet accord of solemn praise the voices that have mingled long in joyous &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/verses-1-3-and-5-especially\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Verses 1, 3, and 5 especially<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12832,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12829\/revisions\/12832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}