{"id":1572,"date":"2010-11-24T23:34:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T16:33:41","slug":"%e2%80%9cnow-thank-we-all-our-god%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Now Thank We All Our God&#8221;\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Thanksgiving I am posting one of my favorite hymns of thanks.\u00a0 It was written in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century by Lutheran pastor, Martin Rinkart, after his city had endured horrible death and devastation in the midst of the Thirty Years&#8217; War (at one point he was leading 50 funerals a day). Yet, the city was spared from total destruction and in response he penned this hymn.\u00a0 The story is briefly told at <a href=\"http:\/\/nethymnal.org\/htm\/n\/o\/nowthank.htm\">NetHymnal<\/a>, and more thoroughly in Douglas Bond&#8217;s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/193036752X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=193036752X\">Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"feqppbaenvvvbzygxulq\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=193036752X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>.\u00a0 May it aid you in giving thanks to God today.<\/p>\n<p>Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,<br \/>\nWho wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;<br \/>\nWho from our mothers&#8217; arms has blessed us on our way<br \/>\nWith countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.<\/p>\n<p>O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,<br \/>\nWith ever joyful hearts and bless&#8217;d peace to cheer us;<br \/>\nAnd keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed;<br \/>\nAnd free us from all ills, in this world and the next!<\/p>\n<p>All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given;<br \/>\nThe Son and Him Who reigns with Them in highest Heaven;<br \/>\nThe one eternal God, whom earth and Heaven adore;<br \/>\nFor thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.<\/p>\n<p>(Translated by Catherine Winkworth)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Thanksgiving I am posting one of my favorite hymns of thanks.\u00a0 It was written in the 17th century by Lutheran pastor, Martin Rinkart, after his city had endured horrible death and devastation in the midst of the Thirty Years&#8217; War (at one point he was leading 50 funerals a day). Yet, the city was &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;Now Thank We All Our God&#8221;\u009d&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}