{"id":785,"date":"2014-12-24T19:21:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecharalife.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2014-12-24T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:21:52","slug":"merry-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Eve!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the next couple of days will be very musical over here on the blog! I meant to post this about two weeks ago, but this post became a casualty of final exam preparation&#8230; oops. Seems like pre-scheduling my posts as much as possible in the future to keep them consistent will be my best bet going forward! But moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I woke up to the song <em>Lord I Need You<\/em> playing in my head, and I couldn&#8217;t resist singing it over and over in both my quiet time and in my head throughout the day (isn&#8217;t it awesome when the Lord puts a song in your heart? Since He knows my love for music, it&#8217;s almost daily for me!). Later that day, I was browsing on Instagram for a study break and happened to visit Sadie Robertson&#8217;s profile (she&#8217;s the daughter of one of the main people on Duck Dynasty and actually recently published a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Live-Original-Commander-Keeps-Values-ebook\/dp\/B00K8WQQCG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418072535&amp;sr=1-1\">Live Original<\/a>). Lo and behold, she had just posted a video of the Daraja Children&#8217;s Choir singing <em>Lord I Need You<\/em> at her church that past weekend! Seeing as that was the weekend right before my final exam period began, the song was such a wonderful reminder for me to recognize just how much I need the Lord in my life, in all facets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matt Maher - Lord, I Need You (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LuvfMDhTyMA?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><!--more-->A few days later, <em>Christ Is Enough<\/em> was put on my heart (seriously, the Lord is the best Encourager at the exact times I need it), and it served as a reiteration of Christ&#8217;s utmost importance in my life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christ Is Enough - Hillsong Worship\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/teUxQpnhezY?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>And then, since music is such an integral part of my life and who I am, whenever I come across a good, mellow song that&#8217;s perfect for studying, I can&#8217;t help but want to share it. This one, <em>Upside Down<\/em>, is by a small band called Goldford that I discovered on Pandora. Merry Christmas Eve!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Upside Down Lyric Video by Goldford\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oKu8mkIGTiE?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the next couple of days will be very musical over here on the blog! I meant to post this about two weeks ago, but this post became a casualty of final exam preparation&#8230; oops. Seems like pre-scheduling my posts as much as possible in the future to keep them consistent will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237,1],"tags":[307,303,304,89,105,121,306,305,142,301,205,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}