{"id":5837,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/be-still-my-soul\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:10","slug":"be-still-my-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/be-still-my-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Still, My Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.    Be still, my soul \u2013 the Lord is on thy side!<br \/>\n         Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;<br \/>\n      Leave to thy God to order and provide \u2013<br \/>\n         In ev\u2019ry change He faithful will remain.<br \/>\n      Be still, my soul \u2013 thy best, thy heav\u2019nly friend<br \/>\n         Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.<\/p>\n<p>2.    Be still, my soul \u2013 thy God doth undertake<br \/>\n         To guide the future as He has the past;<br \/>\n      Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake \u2013<br \/>\n         All now mysterious shall be bright at last.<br \/>\n      Be still, my soul \u2013 the waves and winds still know<br \/>\n         His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below.<\/p>\n<p>3.    Be still, my soul \u2013 the hour is hast\u2019ning on<br \/>\n         When we shall be forever with the Lord,<br \/>\n      When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone,<br \/>\n         Sorrow forgot, love\u2019s purest joys restored.<br \/>\n      Be still, my soul \u2013 when change and tears are past,<br \/>\n         All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.<\/p>\n<p>[Tune \u201cFinlandia\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>   Prince of Peace, control my will,<br \/>\n   Bid this struggling heart be still,<br \/>\n   Bid my fears and doubtings cease,<br \/>\n   Hush my spirit into peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Be still, my soul \u2013 the Lord is on thy side! Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; Leave to thy God to order and provide \u2013 In ev\u2019ry change He faithful will remain. Be still, my soul \u2013 thy best, thy heav\u2019nly friend Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end. 2. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3293,474],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}