{"id":3767,"date":"2020-04-01T02:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T06:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2020-04-16T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:08:08","slug":"devotional-april-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/2020\/04\/devotional-april-1-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional &#8211; April 1, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> 'Some have greatness thrust upon them.' Let's take a moment to be grateful for those on the front lines who are stepping into important and courageous work even when they weren't expecting such a role. A few minutes with Queen Esther and her transformation in 4:14-17. Perhaps you or I will also have a part to play 'for such a time as this.' <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today's music: Elgar's Cello Concerto, first movement. An amazing and unexpected swan song from this composer following his wife's death and the devastation of WWI, created a masterpiece largely unappreciated until a 13 year virtuoso named Jaqueline du Pre 'discovered' it and transformed our understanding of it. (She's 21 in this recording; she was only able to perform until 28 due to MS, from which she passed in her early 40s. She was married to the conductor of this performance, Daniel Barenboim.) <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UUgdbqt2ON0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UUgdbqt2ON0 (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/UUgdbqt2ON0<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Devotional - April 1, 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sxTYlYATgzQ?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>\n<\/div><figcaption> <br>Devotional - April 1, 2020 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Some have greatness thrust upon them.&#8217; Let&#8217;s take a moment to be grateful for those on the front lines who are stepping into important and courageous work even when they weren&#8217;t expecting such a role. A few minutes with Queen Esther and her transformation in 4:14-17. Perhaps you or I will also have a part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cupepc.org\/cup-church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}