{"id":500,"date":"2020-11-23T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/?p=500"},"modified":"2020-11-23T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:58:47","slug":"reflection-from-joel-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/reflection-from-joel-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection from Joel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark Miller composed this song, \u201cI Believe,\u201d as he was grappling with a despairing time in his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words, anonymous, were said to have been found inscribed on a cellar wall in Cologne, Germany where Jews were hiding from Nazi persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe in the sun even when it\u2019s not shining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe in love even when I don\u2019t feel it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe in God even when God is silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I Believe&quot; sung by Chancel Choir of Christ Church, Summit NJ.\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lQVl59Vx5DE?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wonder how the person who scribed that on the cellar wall struggled to find that clarity of hope \u2013 that resolution not to give up. I wonder if there were several there debating whether all was truly lost for them. At some point the person, or the people huddled in that dark place wrote out their creed \u2013 and it continues to ring through the ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I invite you to take a moment to listen to this song \u2013 and let the words and the heart of the music speak a fresh reminder to you that beauty and goodness are deeper than the fear and despair that can cloud our minds, and love is carrying us through even when we don\u2019t feel it. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Miller composed this song, \u201cI Believe,\u201d as he was grappling with a despairing time in his life. The words, anonymous, were said to have been found inscribed on a cellar wall in Cologne, Germany where Jews were hiding from Nazi persecution. I believe in the sun even when it\u2019s not shining. I believe in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/reflection-from-joel-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflection from Joel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhhinfo.com\/worship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}