{"id":971,"date":"2020-12-27T22:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T05:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=971"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T03:37:23","slug":"glory-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2020\/12\/27\/glory-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory to God!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing bits and pieces of Handel&#8217;s Messiah all my life. We would sing the Hallelujah Chorus on Easter Sunday at the church I grew up in, and my Dad would play the Glory to God section during our family Christmas pageants for the angel&#8217;s appearance to the shepherds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year I got a recommendation for a top-notch rendition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=fdlyoEpCV9k\">complete oratorio<\/a>. It was recorded in 1980 at Westminster Abbey. Wow! Until I listened to this, I didn&#8217;t realize how many passages from Isaiah 40 are included (beyond the All Flesh Shall See it Together bit that I was familiar with.) I have been memorizing Isaiah 40 this year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot_20201227-215309_Firefox-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot_20201227-215309_Firefox-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot_20201227-215309_Firefox-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot_20201227-215309_Firefox-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot_20201227-215309_Firefox-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screenshot_20201227-215309_Firefox.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found this music a wonderful way to anchor my heart and mind into the real meaning of Christmas this December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been hearing bits and pieces of Handel\u2019s Messiah all my life, mostly on Christmas and Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}