{"id":370,"date":"2008-07-02T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:01:14","slug":"on-eagles-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/07\/on-eagles-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"On eagles wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Front Porch<\/em> takes off in a slightly different direction today.  I have removed ads and closed comments.  I was starting to get too concerned about what my \u201caudience\u201d might like, feeling like I needed a post up every morning &#8211; usually putting one or 2 together at night whether I felt inspired or not.  It is time to get back to the root of my writing and photo shooting and editing so I\u2019m taking away my motivation to please anyone other than me.<\/p>\n<p>I very much appreciate the community of readers and bloggers and hope that when any of you choose to visit <em>From the Front Porch<\/em>, you find something of interest, beauty and meaning.  My email is ann at beardogco dot com for any personal communication. <\/p>\n<p>I will be writing, shooting and editing from my heart as often as I feel inspired to post something that I want to remember and share &#8211; mostly a simple chronicle of my daily life and thoughts, illustrated by photographs more often than not.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun08\/BigBird500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun08\/BigBirdClose500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jun08\/BigBirdCrop259527.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"527\" style=\"width: 259px; height: 527px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Young (immature) Bald Eagle &#8211; Wayfarer&#8217;s Park, Bigfork, Montana &#8211; June 30, 2008<\/p>\n<p>1st verse and chorus from &#8220;<em>On Eagles Wings<\/em>&#8221;  a song composed by Michael Joncas in 1979 based on Psalm 91.  The 91st Psalm was a favorite of my first Sunday School teacher and to this day I can see her face, smiling with Joy, as she taught us this Psalm.<\/p>\n<p>You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord<br \/>\nwho abide in His shadow for life,<br \/>\nsay to the Lord: &#8216;My refuge,<br \/>\nmy God in whom I trust!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And He will raise you up on eagles&#8217; wings,<br \/>\nbear you on the breath of dawn,<br \/>\nmake you to shine like the sun,<br \/>\nand hold you in the palm of His hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Front Porch takes off in a slightly different direction today. I have removed ads and closed comments. I was starting to get too concerned about what my \u201caudience\u201d might like, feeling like I needed a post up every morning &#8211; usually putting one or 2 together at night whether I felt inspired or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-nature","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22075,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/22075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}