{"id":2055,"date":"2011-02-27T18:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2011-02-27T18:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:06:43","slug":"prayers-from-the-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/2011\/02\/prayers-from-the-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayers From the Ark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below is one of the 7 prayers by Carmen Bernos De Gaszold that were part of a beautiful performance at the Chilmark Community Church on Feb. 27.\u00a0 After each prayer, the musicians,\u00a0 Phil Dietterich, Martha Child, Barbara Lopes and Dorian Lopes, played and sang a musical response. The voices and harmonies were wonderful.\u00a0 The animals, typically define their characters and their limitations and imperfections when held in God&#8217;s view.\u00a0 The peacock prayed to be as beautiful inside as out.\u00a0 The lion is not so sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRAYER OF THE LION<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I am King.\u00a0 That is the law.<br \/>\nYou  know what it means to wear a nimbus.<br \/>\nSome people think they can rule by  love.<br \/>\nHow naive!<br \/>\nI know how to govern your creatures:\u00a0 Strength is  all they respect.<br \/>\nLet us say that fear is wholesome,<br \/>\nBesides, I  delight in making the whole plain tremble with one roar.<br \/>\nYes, far be it  from me to do anything paltry or low:<br \/>\nI know the cost of a noble  heart.<br \/>\nThat is why, Lord, I so love your glory, and strive to attain it.\u00a0  Amen.<\/p>\n<p>(photograph to follow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is one of the 7 prayers by Carmen Bernos De Gaszold that were part of a beautiful performance at the Chilmark Community Church on Feb. 27.\u00a0 After each prayer, the musicians,\u00a0 Phil Dietterich, Martha Child, Barbara Lopes and Dorian Lopes, played and sang a musical response. The voices and harmonies were wonderful.\u00a0 The animals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-events-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}