{"id":45,"date":"2020-03-23T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=45"},"modified":"2024-12-13T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T21:29:34","slug":"altogether-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Altogether Lovely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was working in our shared Ichthus office down at The Well most days in August 2018 &#8230; and one day a co-worker, Matt Cantril, shared an article with me entitled &#8220;Christ Altogether Lovely,&#8221; written in the 17th century by a man named John Flavel. I read it, and loved it, and wrote this poem. To be honest, I don&#8217;t have a lot of pleasant memories from that particular time, as it was a season of significant forging and discipline from the Lord, but that day with Flavel was one of them.<br><br>Here&#8217;s a link if you&#8217;d like to read it for yourself:<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/SERMONS2\/Flavel%20altogether_lovely.htm\">https:\/\/www.gracegems.org\/SERMONS2\/Flavel%20altogether_lovely.htm<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALTOGETHER LOVELY<\/strong><br>I love your name<br>I love your way<br>I love your face<br>I will obey<br><br>I love your light<br>     so warm and clear<br>I love your blood<br>     that draws me near<br>I love your power<br>     to save and slash<br>This office party<br>     you let me crash<br><br>I love your freedom<br>     open door<br>I love your passion<br>     true paramour<br>I love your friendship<br>     tender, true<br>We have relations<br>     can this be true?<br><br>I love you now<br>I\u2019ll love you then<br>I love your heart<br>I will not sin<br><br>Oh Jesus, Jesus<br>Lovely one<br>Receive this poem<br>I\u2019m undone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working in our shared Ichthus office down at The Well most days in August 2018 &#8230; and one day a co-worker, Matt Cantril, shared an article with me entitled &#8220;Christ Altogether Lovely,&#8221; written in the 17th century by a man named John Flavel. I read it, and loved it, and wrote this poem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}