{"id":3455,"date":"2025-04-10T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:45:01","slug":"blog-april-10th-easter-the-new-years-day-of-the-soul-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=3455","title":{"rendered":"Blog April 10th Easter &#8211; The New Year\u2019s Day of the Soul \u2013 Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSFB-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSFB-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSFB-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSFB-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSFB-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSFB-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/MSFB-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3455-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-Still-In-Tears.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-Still-In-Tears.mp3\">https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-Still-In-Tears.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nStill in Tears featuring Lucy Stimpson-Maynard from the album Uplifted recorded and produced by Bob Ross<\/p>\n<p>So, as I said last week at the Mustard Seed 25th Anniversary celebration my wife had invited a friend of hers who plays whistle and flute in a very well -respected local folk group.  I was reminded of a folk song I had made up many years ago- in fact 17 years ago! It had been inspired by an Easter Sunday Selwyn Huges devotion in \u201cEvery Day With Jesus.\u201d  The song had never been recorded as there never seemed an opportunity to do so \u2013 none of the CDs and musicals we produced were appropriate for a folk song \u2013 until Monday of this week that is!!<br \/>\nSo \u201cSarah the Singer,\u201d  \u201cEmma the Singer,\u201d \u201c Deborah the Fiddle,\u201d \u201cTim the Whistle,\u201d \u201cChris the Guitar and Drums,\u201d and \u201cRon the Bass\u201d together with the tech team of Jim Nolan, Leo Higgins, Chris Binns and of course Mustard Seed Songs\u2019 Production guru, Joffy Girling (Joffy James Productions) arrived at Holy Rood church, on Monday about 6.00 pm and by 10.00 pm all was recorded and filmed and packed away.<br \/>\nMany, many thanks to all involved \u2013 I  can\u2019t wait for you to be the first to see and hear the outcome next Thursday! <\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/072114da66c7ff08f0bd03879fb42b4d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"736\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/072114da66c7ff08f0bd03879fb42b4d.jpg 736w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/072114da66c7ff08f0bd03879fb42b4d-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/072114da66c7ff08f0bd03879fb42b4d-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/072114da66c7ff08f0bd03879fb42b4d-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still in Tears featuring Lucy Stimpson-Maynard from the album Uplifted recorded and produced by Bob Ross So, as I said last week at the Mustard Seed 25th Anniversary celebration my wife had invited a friend of hers who plays whistle and flute in a very well -respected local folk group. I was reminded of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}