{"id":142174,"date":"2025-12-25T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142174"},"modified":"2025-12-25T12:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:46:33","slug":"music-for-christmas-jesus-christ-the-apple-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142174","title":{"rendered":"Music for Christmas\u2013Jesus Christ the Apple Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SixnHKwyrjI\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Ever since I first heard it, my favorite Christmas song&#8211;KSH.<\/i><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lyrics\u2013The tree of life my soul hath seen,<br>Laden with fruit, and always green:<br>The trees of nature fruitless be<br>Compared with Christ the apple tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His beauty doth all things excel:<br>By faith I know, but ne\u2019er can tell<br>The glory which I now can see<br>In Jesus Christ the apple tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For happiness I long have sought,<br>And pleasure dearly I have bought:<br>I missed of all; but now I see<br>\u2018Tis found in Christ the apple tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m weary with my former toil,<br>Here I will sit and rest awhile:<br>Under the shadow I will be<br>of Jesus Christ the apple tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fruit doth make my soul to thrive,<br>It keeps my dying faith alive;<br>Which makes my soul in haste to be<br>With Jesus Christ the apple tree.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Be like a tree<br>planted<br>by streams of water&quot;.<br>(Psalm 1 : 3)<br>Apple Tree by Lake Zurich, 1914<br>Karl Mediz (1868-1945) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xNVnxoo0Mg\">pic.twitter.com\/xNVnxoo0Mg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jim Beattie (@JimBeattie18) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBeattie18\/status\/1647610891649662977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first heard it, my favorite Christmas song&#8211;KSH. Lyrics\u2013The tree of life my soul hath seen,Laden with fruit, and always green:The trees of nature fruitless beCompared with Christ the apple tree. His beauty doth all things excel:By faith<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142174\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,183,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142179,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142174\/revisions\/142179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}