{"id":4350,"date":"2022-11-03T09:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2022-11-03T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T13:29:02","slug":"honor-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/honor-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Honor the Dark&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Honor the Dark&#8221; is a beautiful song in 4 parts, written and performed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisislea.com\/\">Lea Morris.<\/a>&nbsp;It&#8217;s a wonderful piece for advent and wintertime, featuring loving lyrics which embrace the warmth and power of darkness:<br><br>1. Honor the dark, honor the dark<br><br>2. Honor the darkness, honor the darkness<br><br>3. Honor the dark<br>As you do the light<br>Receive the gifts that come to us by day and by night<br>I choose to honor the dark<br>Uncertainty and change<br>Deliver us from fear&nbsp;<br>Until only love remains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. As the butterfly slips free from her dark cocoon <br>As the evening sky reveals the light of the moon <br>Sometimes, fear surrounds us <br>Sometimes, there will be pain <br>Let the darkness heal you until only love remains\u00a0 <br><br>To hear how the four parts layer on top of each other,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oEztYa9uqKY\">listen to this video\u00a0<\/a>on Lea&#8217;s youtube channel.  Community coordinator Debbie Holloway has also created two supplemental recordings:  <br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Honor-the-Dark-teaching-track.m4a\">a teaching track<\/a>, which offers suggestions on how to teach the song to a group,  <br><br>and . . .  <br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Honor-the-Dark-4-parts-sung-no-teaching.m4a\">a short recording of all 4 parts sung separately<\/a>, one after the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Honor the Dark&#8221; is a beautiful song in 4 parts, written and performed by&nbsp;Lea Morris.&nbsp;It&#8217;s a wonderful piece for advent and wintertime, featuring loving lyrics which embrace the warmth and power of darkness: 1. Honor the dark, honor the dark 2. Honor the darkness, honor the darkness 3. Honor the darkAs you do the lightReceive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}