1
\nCome, sing a song of harvest, Of thanks for daily food!
\nTo offer God the first-fruits is old as gratitude.<\/p>\n
2
\nLong, long ago, the reapers, before they kept the feast,
\nPut first-fruits in a basket, and took it to the priest.<\/p>\n
3
\nShall we, sometimes forgetful oh where creation starts,
\nWith science in our pockets lose wonder from our hearts?<\/p>\n
4
\nMay God, the great Creator, to whom all life belongs,
\nAccept these gifts we offer, our service and our songs.<\/p>\n
5
\nAnd lest the world go hungry while we ourselves are fed,
\nMake each of us more ready to share our daily bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1 Come, sing a song of harvest, Of thanks for daily food! To offer God the first-fruits is old as gratitude. 2 Long, long ago, the reapers, before they kept the feast, Put first-fruits in a basket, and took it to the priest. 3 Shall we, sometimes forgetful oh where creation starts, With science in our pockets lose wonder from our hearts? 4 May God, the great Creator, to whom all life belongs, Accept these gifts we offer, our service and our songs. 5 And lest the world go hungry while we ourselves are fed, Make each of us more <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-501-600","category-christian-life","category-thankfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}