{"id":2683,"date":"2007-06-09T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:56:19","slug":"everything-in-heaven-comes-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2683","title":{"rendered":"Everything in heaven comes apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which is the title of one of my favourite Martyn Joseph songs. I have had the strangest of mornings, of bizarre extremes, positive and negative. I felt as if I was precisely ‘coming apart’ – but God’s grace is present in it.<\/p>\n

We had one of my all-time favourite psalms at Morning Prayer – psalm 45, which I’d like at my funeral, but a different verse struck me today rather than the usual ones:<\/p>\n

“Your right hand will teach you terrible things”<\/p>\n

That was, of course, the burden of the Old Testament Heart<\/a>. It is starting to shape me more and more; sometimes it is frightening, but I do believe that God is in it. God being in it, of course, doesn’t stop it being painful.<\/p>\n

Ho hum.<\/p>\n

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Which is the title of one of my favourite Martyn Joseph songs. I have had the strangest of mornings, of bizarre extremes, positive and negative. I felt as if I was precisely ‘coming apart’ – but God’s grace is present … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Hh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6519,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}