{"id":5812,"date":"2010-05-24T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2010-05-24T08:08:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T14:08:02","slug":"seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2010\/05\/24\/seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Years!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Wedding-day.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Wedding-day1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5814\" title=\"Wedding day\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Wedding-day1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Wedding-day1-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Wedding-day1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Seven years ago today, my\u00a0(Shannon) wife, Erin,\u00a0and I were married at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchillmemorial.org\/churchofstmary\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury in Fulton, Missouri<\/a>.\u00a0 It has been a great marriage, highlighted by three awesome children, a great support network of friends and family, and (most importantly)\u00a0God&#8217;s continuous and abundant grace in our lives..<\/p>\n<p>For the wedding, Erin asked me to set music for the responsorial psalm.\u00a0 The psalm chosen for the day was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/nab\/bible\/psalms\/psalm118.htm\">118<\/a>, which contains the statement: <strong><em>This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This statement has become very important for our family, as it helps us trust God and God&#8217;s plan for us.\u00a0 It also reminds us to appreciate each day as a tremendous gift from God.<\/p>\n<p>As requested, Orin and I put a musical setting to this psalm and created Oddwalk&#8217;s, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?page_id=3596\">This Is the Day<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 As a way to give you a piece of our wedding experience, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myxer.com\/ringtone:448453\/\">here<\/a> to download a free ringtone for that song.<\/p>\n<p>Happy anniversary, Erin!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Seven years ago today, my\u00a0(Shannon) wife, Erin,\u00a0and I were married at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury in Fulton, Missouri.\u00a0 It has been a great marriage, highlighted by three awesome children, a great support network of friends and family, and (most importantly)\u00a0God&#8217;s continuous and abundant grace in our lives.. For the wedding, Erin&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2010\/05\/24\/seven-years\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,7,3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-music","category-oddwalkia","category-ringtones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}