{"id":31,"date":"2015-08-11T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=31"},"modified":"2015-08-11T23:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:05:43","slug":"12-christian-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"12.  Christian Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think positive affirmations are a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read books by Louise Hay which teach this.\u00a0 The other day, a friend mentioned that when someone defines you negatively, just denying that definition reinforces it in your brain.\u00a0 (It doesn&#8217;t help to try to counteract it by saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a bad mother.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s better to say something positive:\u00a0 &#8220;I am a loving and accepting mother.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>And Christian songs add music to positive affirmations.\u00a0 They are powerful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to include a couple that have blessed me recently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glorious Unfolding - Steven Curtis Chapman (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKMjEvF2Fkw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Glorious Unfolding speaks directly to my bewilderment in not having the life I expected at this time in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Sovereign Over Us reminds me that God is good and loving, and He is in control.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael W. Smith - Sovereign Over Us (Official Live Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4x8TZiwPGa0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I think positive affirmations are a good thing. I&#8217;ve read books by Louise Hay which teach this.\u00a0 The other day, a friend mentioned that when someone defines you negatively, just denying that definition reinforces it in your brain.\u00a0 (It doesn&#8217;t help to try to counteract it by saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m not a bad mother.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}