{"id":5838,"date":"2008-09-30T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/09\/come-sing-a-song-of-praise.html"},"modified":"2008-09-30T14:40:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:40:58","slug":"come-sing-a-song-of-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/09\/come-sing-a-song-of-praise.html","title":{"rendered":"Come, Let us Sing a Song of Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s us sing a song of praise to the one who is going to spread happiness and freedom:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TW9b0xr06qA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TW9b0xr06qA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>You know what song came to mind when I saw this video? &#8220;Jesus loves the little children.&#8221; Sadly, the messiah they have put so much hope in that inspired them to sing this song of praise, isn&#8217;t worth their adoration and is bound to disappoint. No mere mortal can live up to the level of praise in this song. If the song was heartfelt (and not something that their music director made them sing), then I hope they aren&#8217;t too disappointed when the realty doesn&#8217;t live up their fantasy and they realize they put their hope in someone who couldn&#8217;t possibly deliver all they expected him to deliver (can any political leader guarantee happiness?). But since their kids, they&#8217;ll probably forget about it next year \ud83d\ude42 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s us sing a song of praise to the one who is going to spread happiness and freedom:You know what song came to mind when I saw this video? &#8220;Jesus loves the little children.&#8221; Sadly, the messiah they have put so much hope in that inspired them to sing this song of praise, isn&#8217;t worth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-religion-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Come, Let us Sing a Song of Praise - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/09\/come-sing-a-song-of-praise.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Come, Let us Sing a Song of Praise - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let&#8217;s us sing a song of praise to the one who is going to spread happiness and freedom:You know what song came to mind when I saw this video? 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