{"id":29040,"date":"2021-05-20T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29040"},"modified":"2021-05-20T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:44:49","slug":"sitting-on-garden-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sitting-on-garden-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on my Garden Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A song for Pentecost. Either a song of deep and profound theological significance or one of irredeemably silly shallowness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sitting on my Garden Wall\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lT6QX3Lr4kc?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><strong>Sitting on my Garden Wall\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0David Jenkins<\/strong><br \/>\nWaiting for Messiah to come, sitting on my garden wall,<br \/>\nBalancing: try not to fall down.<br \/>\nLooking at the world today, listen to what people say,<br \/>\nDancing to the tune that they play.<br \/>\n<em>Chorus<\/em><br \/>\nRushing wind and tongues of fire,<br \/>\nKnock me down, spoil my composure.<br \/>\nJesus lives and the church is born;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m falling off my garden wall.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting &#8217;till the time is right: do not want to die of fright,<br \/>\nBalancing: try not to fall down.<br \/>\nSeeking through the light so dim, opening my heart to Him.<br \/>\nDancing to the tune that He sings.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for felicitous signs from the Omnipotent,<br \/>\nBalancing: try not to fall down.<br \/>\nTiming is everything, now I know I must give in,<br \/>\nDancing to the tune from within.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting so long is for chumps, sending you into the dumps,<br \/>\nBalancing, try not to fall down.<br \/>\nThe Spirit\u2019s here among us now,<br \/>\nFlowing from the Father\u2019s throne,<br \/>\nDancing to the tune that They play.<br \/>\n\u00a9 2007 David Jenkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song for Pentecost. Either a song of deep and profound theological significance or one of irredeemably silly shallowness. Sitting on my Garden Wall\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0David Jenkins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sitting-on-garden-wall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[2671],"class_list":["post-29040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-pentecost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}