{"id":4008,"date":"2020-05-22T18:59:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2020-05-22T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:59:35","slug":"faith-builders-virtual-choir-still-with-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2020\/faith-builders-virtual-choir-still-with-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Builders Virtual Choir: Still With Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the restrictions levied in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Faith Builders Educational Programs had to cancel their choir tour (among many other things). Our son Andrew is a student there. He had the idea of assembling a virtual choir to sing a song to present to their director as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>He had plenty of fellow students contribute their voices to the effort. He spent dozens of hours bringing all their audio and video together. The result is beautiful! Thank you, Andrew and crew. \ud83d\ude42 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And you (yes, you, reader) &#8212; may you be blessed and encouraged in listening to this hymn. May God be glorified and blessed. Amen!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I put the original lyrics at the end of this post.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Still With Thee: Faith Builders Virtual Choir\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qALPBM_bX20?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><\/p>\n<p>I am so thankful the mighty Good Shepherd is still with me. Praise Him!<\/p>\n<p>PS: Can you identify our son in the video above? \ud83d\ude00 Andrew&#8217;s been doing music for quite a while. Here&#8217;s another one of his projects: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2016\/roth-male-octet-for-unto-us-a-child-is-born\/\" title=\"Roth Male Octet: For Unto Us a Child Is Born\">Roth Male Octet: For Unto Us a Child Is Born<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Still, Still With Thee<\/h2>\n<p>Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,<br \/>\nWhen the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;<br \/>\nFairer than morning, lovelier than daylight,<br \/>\nDawns the sweet consciousness, I am with Thee.<\/p>\n<p>Alone with Thee, amid the mystic shadows,<br \/>\nThe solemn hush of nature newly born;<br \/>\nAlone with Thee in breathless adoration,<br \/>\nIn the calm dew and freshness of the morn.<\/p>\n<p>Still, still with Thee! As to each newborn morning<br \/>\nA fresh and solemn splendor still is giv&#8217;n,<br \/>\nSo does this blessed consciousness, awaking,<br \/>\nBreathe each day nearness unto Thee and heav&#8217;n.<\/p>\n<p>So shall it be at last, in that bright morning,<br \/>\nWhen the soul waketh and life&#8217;s shadows flee;<br \/>\nO in that hour, fairer than daylight dawning,<br \/>\nShall rise the glorious thought, I am with Thee.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic hymn, beautifully sung in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":"Faith Builders Virtual Choir: Still With Thee","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[999,704],"tags":[1079,1081,515,186,894,351,521],"class_list":["post-4008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soul-and-spirit","category-thankful","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-encouragement","tag-hope","tag-inspirational","tag-mennonites","tag-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-12E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}