{"id":1969,"date":"2007-02-17T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/02\/how-good\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:49","slug":"how-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/02\/how-good.html","title":{"rendered":"How Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RdcK_hMhhEI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/kZGcKeKignw\/s1600-h\/Solomon.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RdcK_hMhhEI\/AAAAAAAAAFY\/kZGcKeKignw\/s400\/Solomon.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>How good<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>How pleasant<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>When we abide intimate together<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Like warm oil on the head<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Trickling down the cheek<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Aaron\u2019s cheek<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>And trickling down the neck onto the collar<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Like the dew of Mount Hermon<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The dew that runs down the mountains of Zion<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Where you called forth the blessing<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For life, life always<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>The 133rd Psalm<\/em><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>a poetic translation by<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Opening-You-Zen-Inspired-Translations-Psalms\/dp\/0142196134\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Norman Fischer<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-799867582360182669?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How good How pleasant When we abide intimate together Like warm oil on the head Trickling down the cheek Aaron\u2019s cheek And trickling down the neck onto the collar Like the dew of Mount Hermon The dew that runs down the mountains of Zion Where you called forth the blessing For life, life always The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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