{"id":27493,"date":"2023-04-21T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/?p=27493"},"modified":"2023-04-21T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:29:55","slug":"story-%e2%80%a3-a-little-morning-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/?p=27493","title":{"rendered":"Story \u2023 A Little Morning Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I walked out on my porch this morning to the wonderful sight of the sun rising over the mountains.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I smiled as its golden beams lit up the clear, blue sky.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>My light jacket was unbuttoned, and the morning breeze felt warm and comforting.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The trees were still bare of any buds, but I could feel a sense of the coming spring on this winter day.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I breathed in the fresh air and thanked God for this glorious day to be alive.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I thought the only one thing missing that would make this a perfect moment: a little morning music.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Then suddenly I heard it. God had granted my wish. The morning music had arrived. It was the first birdsongs of the year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>After the cold and silent mornings of winter, nothing could have sounded sweeter.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The music was coming from every direction. The birds were singing for love, for joy, and for God.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>They were calling on spring to hurry along and life to return to this world once more.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I stood still and just listened.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I could feel my own soul awakening to Heaven\u2019s joy and my own heart filling with God\u2019s love.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>It truly was a perfect moment.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sometimes we all go through the harshness of winter in our lives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Sometimes we all feel cold, dead, and quiet inside. Sometimes we all wonder where the music has gone.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>It is then, however, that we need to tell the little bird in our souls to sing once again.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>It is then that we need to ask God to fill us with His love and His music.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>It is then that we need to awaken our inner spring and share its life and warmth with the world.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I hope that you always take the time to hear the birds singing in the trees and the bird singing in your soul.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I hope that you fill your days with songs of joy, acts of love, and thoughts of God.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I hope that you start everyday of your life here with a little morning music and carry its Heavenly melody in your heart all day long<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"63d509947b33dea96ed9a09b2482b63d\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1554416\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked out on my porch this morning to the wonderful sight of the sun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uplifting-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27496,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493\/revisions\/27496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhealthyalternative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}