{"id":3273,"date":"2012-04-18T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2012-04-18T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T00:07:04","slug":"new-song-absent-from-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/new-song-absent-from-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"New Song: &#8220;Absent From Flesh&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning we sang an new old song together, &#8220;Absent From Flesh.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojournmusic.com\/\">Sojourn Music<\/a> recently set this song and others by Isaac Watts to new music in their album, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sojournmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-water-and-the-blood\">The Water and The Blood<\/a><\/em>. Isaac Watts wrote this song in the 1700s.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the song led by the writers of the new tune, followed by the text:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/5051267?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"230\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5051267\">click here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0to view this video]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Absent from flesh, O blissful thought;<br \/>\nWhat joy this moment brings;<br \/>\nFreed from the blame my sin has brought,<br \/>\nfrom pain and death and its sting.<\/p>\n<p>Absent from flesh, O Glorious day!<br \/>\nin one triumphant stroke;<br \/>\nMy reckoning paid, my charges dropped,<br \/>\nand the bonds &#8217;round my hands are broke.<\/p>\n<p>I go where God and glory shine,<br \/>\nto one eternal day;<br \/>\nThis failing body I now resign,<br \/>\nfor the angels point my way;<br \/>\nfor the angels point my way.<\/p>\n<p>Absent from flesh! then rise, my soul,<br \/>\nWhere feet nor wings could climb,<br \/>\nbeyond the sky, where planets roll,<br \/>\nand beyond all keep of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>You can purchase this song from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Absent-from-Flesh\/dp\/B004X48G82\/desesprichur-20\">Amazon<\/a> or from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sojournmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-water-and-the-blood\">Sojourn Bandcamp site<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning we sang an new old song together, &#8220;Absent From Flesh.&#8221; Sojourn Music recently set this&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/new-song-absent-from-flesh\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}