{"id":2230,"date":"2021-03-11T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2021-03-11T10:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:15:35","slug":"it-streams-from-the-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/03\/11\/it-streams-from-the-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"It streams from the hills&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The morning was wet and blustery at first, and there&#8217;s noticeably more water around now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0052.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0052.jpg 686w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0052-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The water where AFAIR the frogspawn was is now moving. I have seen some cheery little bits of blues sky though. I meant to say &#8216;blue&#8217; but maybe &#8216;blues&#8217; is more interesting. What comes from the sky does feature in the blues sometimes&#8230;<br><em>&#8220;It can rain five days, but that won&#8217;t give me no blues.<br>It can rain five days, but that won&#8217;t give me no blues.<br>I&#8217;ve got my rain coat and hat, umberella (sic), boots and shoes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=74\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a> another little verse taken out of context, from Psalm 107:17 &#8230; <em>&#8220;Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction;&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> But some are sick through other people&#8217;s sinful ways, and because of other people&#8217;s iniquities endured affliction. Fortunately many prophets had something to say about social justice. It may be that the entire society can be sick because it&#8217;s dominated by some people&#8217;s sinful ways. And maybe when we read the next verses we can think of applying 19 and 20 to the whole society&#8230;<br><em>&#8220;107:18 they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.<br>107:19 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress;<br>107:20 he sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction.&#8221;<\/em><br>&#8230;Suppose <em><strong>we<\/strong><\/em> cry to the Lord in our trouble?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The morning was wet and blustery at first, and there&#8217;s noticeably more water around now. The water where AFAIR the frogspawn was is now moving. I have seen some cheery little bits of blues sky though. I meant to say &#8216;blue&#8217; but maybe &#8216;blues&#8217; is more interesting. What comes from the sky does feature in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/03\/11\/it-streams-from-the-hills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It streams from the hills&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}