{"id":1536,"date":"2009-12-07T14:50:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2009-12-07T14:50:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:50:28","slug":"advent-meditation-day-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/advent-meditation-day-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Meditation-Day Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/flower-through-snow-235346.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1538\" title=\"flower-in-snow\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/flower-through-snow-235346.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/flower-through-snow-235346.jpg 538w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/flower-through-snow-235346-350x246.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/flower-through-snow-235346-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today, we&#8217;ll reflect on the arrival of Jesus as Day Spring. It is a strange visual for winter, and of course, Jesus was not actually born at the time of year when we celebrate his birth. But, the reminder of hope and new birth at the time of darkest night during the winter season is powerful indeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">3rd verse of O come, O come, Emmanuel -written in the 12th century (in Latin). Translated into English by John Mason Neale in 1851.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em>O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em><br \/>\nOur spirits by Thine advent here<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em><br \/>\nDisperse the gloomy clouds of night<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em><br \/>\nAnd death&#8217;s dark shadows put to flight.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em><br \/>\nRejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em><br \/>\nShall come to thee, O Israel.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em><span style=\"color:#333300;\">Please leave your comments, or thoughts.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#800080;\"><em><span style=\"color:#333300;\">thank you for coming by. Happy Advent to you.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent Meditation &#8211; Jesus, Day Spring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76],"tags":[153,12,686,15,927,1111,1307,1308,1472,1524,37,1819,41,1865,2172,2316,2336,58,2829,68,2999,3122,6539,3212,90],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-spirituality","tag-advent","tag-christ","tag-christmas","tag-church","tag-death","tag-emmanuel","tag-flower","tag-flower-and-snow","tag-god","tag-grace","tag-hope","tag-israel","tag-jesus","tag-john-mason-neale","tag-meditation","tag-nativity","tag-new-birth","tag-photography","tag-rejoice","tag-scriptures","tag-season-of-advent","tag-snow","tag-spirituality","tag-spring","tag-worldviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}