{"id":420,"date":"2011-05-30T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=420"},"modified":"2011-05-30T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T13:39:00","slug":"if-it-be-your-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"If it be your will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I randomly picked up a Vanity Fair the other day, to discover celebrated atheist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2011\/06\/christopher-hitchens-unspoken-truths-201106\">Christopher Hitchens talking about &#8216;If it be your will&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a slight irony there. It is at least a possibility that Hitch is unaware of it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a song I&#8217;m finding comforting at the moment:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><i>If it be your will\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><span><i>That I speak no more\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>And my voice be still\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>As it was before\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>I will speak no more\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>I shall abide until\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>I am spoken for\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>If it be your will\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>If it be your will\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>That a voice be true\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>From this broken hill\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>I will sing to you\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>From this broken hill\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>All your praises they shall ring\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>If it be your will\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>To let me sing\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>From this broken hill\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>All your praises they shall ring\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>If it be your will\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i>To let me sing<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div>There are reasons for my lack of posting recently.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Some time soon I&#8217;ll talk about them.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I randomly picked up a Vanity Fair the other day, to discover celebrated atheist Christopher Hitchens talking about &#8216;If it be your will&#8217;. There is a slight irony there. It is at least a possibility that Hitch is unaware of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=420\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-music","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-6M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}