{"id":7628,"date":"2022-02-18T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2022-02-18T07:11:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:11:55","slug":"songs-of-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/songs-of-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7628\" data-postid=\"7628\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7628 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>A narrow strip of green paper with printing on it caught my eye. I stopped walking and picked it up. I&#8217;ll read anything I find on the ground except product packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read the strip: \u201cLet us come before him with thanksgiving and sing joyful songs of praise.\u201d <em>The Bible<\/em>, Psalms 95:2. Good News Translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good News Translation? Never heard of that one. Give me the King James version of give me nothing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, the psalm appealed to me at the precise moment. I haven&#8217;t been singing too many songs of praise in my mind or writing lately. How can you if you&#8217;re writing almost exclusively about the homeless crisis? There is little to praise there, except the willingness of many people not being paid to care who care a lot and act on their own volition. I suppose I could also praise the incredible resiliency of many people living on streets who are there out of personal or economic collapse or both at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After reading the slip several times, I continued my walk and thought about other songs of praise I might sing. I started to list them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dogs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perry Mason, the TV show with Raymond Burr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beavers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Street libraries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oregon&#8217;s socialist public beaches<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miles Davis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Squirrels<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That someone on Amazon purchased one of my publications the other day and netted me 37 cents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rivers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Old Crow Book Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of songs I could sing!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A narrow strip of green paper with printing on it caught my eye. I stopped walking and picked it up. I&#8217;ll read anything I find on the ground except product packaging. I read the strip: \u201cLet us come before him with thanksgiving and sing joyful songs of praise.\u201d The Bible, Psalms 95:2. Good News Translation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7631,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7628\/revisions\/7631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}