{"id":353,"date":"2019-01-02T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/till-there-was-you\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:16:10","slug":"till-there-was-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Till There Was You"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was recently driving my 14-year-old grandson to school when he asked: “What’s your favorite song, Nana?” Without much thought, I said, \u201c\u2018Till There Was You\u201d and I proceeded to explain that song was Papa\u2019s and my wedding song. He had his phone connected by Bluetooth and searched for it and up came the Beatle\u2019s rendition. We listened to the whole song and, to my astonishment; he said: \u201cI like that song!\u201d I went on to tell him that we loved going to musical theater performances and that song was from \u201cThe Music Man\u201d. I\u2019m sure he was in a fog about that production, but I was pleased with his acceptance of my \u201coldie but goodie\u201d. <\/p>\n

During the tenderness of the Christmas season, I was having the sweetest of times with God one morning and I started singing that song, but this time I wasn\u2019t singing it to my sweetheart but to God. And the words are so befitting to a relationship before Christ, and after falling in love with Him. <\/p>\n

“There were bells on a hill, but I never heard them ringing!
\nNo, I never heard them at all, till there was YOU!
\nThere were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging!
\nNo, I never saw them at all, till there was YOU!
\nThen there was music and wonderful roses.
\nThey tell me, in sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and dew.
\nThere was love all around, but I never heard it singing.
\nNo, I never heard it at all, till there was you.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I feel about my Lord \u2013 who turned my sadness, gloom, despair into joy and gladness. He gave me purpose and hope. Now I see through rose-colored glasses of positivity and great expectation every day. My family and I went to see the new \u201cMary Poppins Returns\u201d movie on Christmas Eve. Yes, we are that family that embraces \u201cgood feeling, happy ending\u201d movies. Afterward, my granddaughter said, \u201cI guess that\u2019s what life on drugs is like!\u201d We laughed, but my daughter, with her Godly insight, said, \u201cThat\u2019s what perspective looks like. Most people escape their realities by drugs or other vices to have a utopic experience. But those of us in Christ with Holy Spirit living in us have those experiences because Holy Spirit enables us to have joy in the midst of fear; gladness instead of sadness; peace instead of turmoil; hope instead of hopelessness; love instead of hate; dancing instead of mourning. <\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019d like to get off the doom and gloom track and get on board this \u201cJoyful, joyful we adore You!\u201d train, too! It sure makes for a gumdrop and roses and whiskers on kitten kind-of-day and life. Let me introduce you to the Conductor! He\u2019s known as the Prince of Peace, the Solid Rock, the Great I Am! Once you get to know Him, you, too will be singing \u201cThere were bells on a hill and I never heard thing ringing \u2013 no I never heard them at all TILL THERE WAS YOU! <\/p>\n

\u201cYou turned my mourning into dancing; You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever.\u201d Psalm 30:11,12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was recently driving my 14-year-old grandson to school when he asked: “What’s your favorite song, Nana?” Without much thought, I said, \u201c\u2018Till There Was You\u201d and I proceeded to explain that song was Papa\u2019s and my wedding song. He had his phone connected by Bluetooth and searched for it and up came the Beatle\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,407,408,409,410,411,412,413,414,415,416],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beatles","tag-bells-on-a-hill","tag-conductor","tag-favorite-song","tag-mary-poppins-returns","tag-mourning-into-dancing","tag-musical-theater","tag-psalm-3011-12","tag-shirley-jones","tag-the-music-man","tag-till-there-was-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}