{"id":933,"date":"2012-12-18T00:55:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=933"},"modified":"2012-12-18T00:55:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:55:24","slug":"night-of-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Night of Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a06.05 miles<\/p>\n<p>*no problems logging into my blog tonight \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, our church put on the Christmas cantata my John W. Peterson,<strong> Night of Miracles<\/strong>. \u00a0It seemed like we put it on every Christmas season (at least for 3 years) and I can remember going down to the KRNT studio and watching people sing with an orchestra and everything for the radio. \u00a0To this day, I can sing, by memory, a major portion of this cantata&#8230;Niiiight of Miracles, Niiiiight of Miracles, it was a glorious night\u00a0divine&#8230;.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/night-of-miracles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-934\" title=\"night of miracles\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/night-of-miracles-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/night-of-miracles-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/night-of-miracles.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John W. Peterson had a pattern to his music. \u00a0He would take a Biblical quote and then repeat it two or three times and move on the the next Biblical quote. \u00a0I loved <strong>Night of Miracles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, imagine my surprise and joy to find part of Luke chapter 2 written out on my Gas Station windows today. \u00a0(Shell Station). \u00a0How does that fit into <strong>Night of<\/strong> <strong>Miracles<\/strong>? \u00a0Well&#8230;one of the songs is a direct quote from this passage (complete with the repeats \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0&#8220;Fear not! \u00a0For behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy! Which shall be unto all people. \u00a0For unto you is born this day, in the City of David and Savior which is Christ the Lord&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, today, I have had that song on the brain and have been singing that song and driving my husband nuts (who also knows this cantata and therefore has it on the brain, too).<\/p>\n<p>But, isn&#8217;t it cool, that a gas station would take the entire West side windows of their establishment and write out a portion of Luke 2 !?! \u00a0They also have a nativity scene below the scripture passage! \u00a0Somebody there has guts and I for one, am impressed.<\/p>\n<p>So, Google John W. Peterson&#8217;s, <strong>Night of Miracles<\/strong>. \u00a0I bet you can listen to it online. \u00a0It is great. \u00a0I have fond memories of listening to is as a little kid and to this day, I think it is the best Christmas music ever.<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/shell-station-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-935\" title=\"Shell Station.  Macon\/Meridian exit of hwy 82.  Columbus, MS\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/shell-station-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/shell-station-002.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/shell-station-002-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/shell-station-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/shell-station-002-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a06.05 miles *no problems logging into my blog tonight \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 When I was a kid, our church put on the Christmas cantata my John W. Peterson, Night of Miracles. \u00a0It seemed like we put it on every Christmas season (at least for 3 years) and I can remember going down to the KRNT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}