{"id":356,"date":"2010-09-04T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2010-09-04T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T01:11:00","slug":"augusts-hymn-favorite-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"August&#8217;s Hymn (Favorite Verse)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIGdt2RoMBI\/AAAAAAAAJH0\/iIa5pVU7pYs\/s1600\/DSC04892.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIGdt2RoMBI\/AAAAAAAAJH0\/iIa5pVU7pYs\/s320\/DSC04892.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512860829867323410\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Oh Blessed, Living Lord<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Because this months song sings like a lullaby and reads like a poem I couldn&#8217;t pick a favorite verse and shall share them all with you.  Read it through and tell me which part really moved your heart.<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of praying for our hearts to be engaged and to answer with a chord thus I thought the first verse was my favorite.   However I could whole <span>heartedly<\/span> agree with where the author was coming from as I read through verse two and so I thought I would choose it but then the final verse was such a good reminder and so simply put about something so big I realised I had to share them all.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"1\">O blessed, living Lord,<br \/> Engage our hearts with Thee,<br \/>And strike within some <span>answ&#8217;ring<\/span> chord<br \/> To love so rich and free!<\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">To know Thy loving heart!<br \/> To cleave to Thy <span>blest<\/span> side!<br \/>To gaze upon Thee where Thou art,<br \/> And in Thy love abide!<\/li>\n<li value=\"3\">To walk with Thee below!<br \/> To learn Thy holy ways!<br \/>And more to Thine own stature grow,<br \/> To Thine eternal praise!<\/li>\n<li value=\"4\">Thyself our one Desire!<br \/> Thyself our Object here!<br \/>The goal to which our hearts aspire\u2014<br \/> To meet Thee in the air!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Blessed, Living Lord Because this months song sings like a lullaby and reads like a poem I couldn&#8217;t pick a favorite verse and shall share them all with you. Read it through and tell me which part really moved your heart. I love the idea of praying for our hearts to be engaged and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}