{"id":466,"date":"2010-12-01T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnj.umo.mybluehost.me\/25days\/the-first-day\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:58:47","slug":"the-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/the-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been finding some great music these days, and I wanted to share my 25 days of Christmas music with you! Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div>In November, I had the opportunity to sing in the Messiah. I also had the opportunity to sing a solo &#8211; not anything I thought I would ever do. But I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to sing, and to sing THIS song. . . . I know that there is a copy of our performance . . . but I don&#8217;t know if we have permission to put it online, I also don&#8217;t know if I am confident enough to put it on here, I also know that the quality is not great &#8211; so. . . . those are my excuses, and I am sticking to them!<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I went looking for someone else who sang the same song that I did, and I found Barbara Bonney &#8211; WOW! In this clip she sings both the alto part, and the soprano part! I am in awe &#8211; just sad that the video is out of sinc. . . . . so close your eyes and enjoy the music.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I had a great experience singing the alto part of this song. . . I felt the truth in the words &#8211; it was my Christmas gift from on high &#8211; a tender mercy &#8211; something that I needed to remember &#8211; how gentle He is, how much he loves each of us. . .<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He shall feed his flock, like a shepherd and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, with his arm. And carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; what a great blessing this was for me &#8211; now enjoy Barbara!<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barbara Bonney sings &quot;He shall feed his flock&quot; from Handel&#039;s &#039;Messiah&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-bAXm-A3Ls?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<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been finding some great music these days, and I wanted to share my 25 days of Christmas music with you! Enjoy! In November, I had the opportunity to sing in the Messiah. I also had the opportunity to sing a solo &#8211; not anything I thought I would ever do. But I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-25days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}