{"id":1821,"date":"2026-01-15T08:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:46:24","slug":"secretarys-corner-60-january-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/secretarys-corner-60-january-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary&#8217;s Corner 60 &#8211; January 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So before I ventured across the ocean in September, my mother offered to switch phones with me, so I would have access to a better camera for pictures. (And anyone who has seen my photography skills know I need all the help I can get\u2026) We switched, I took her phone off to France, didn\u2019t break it, (which is a feat in itself) and when I got home we eventually got around to switching it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, when we did the original transfer, we were able to each keep all our original data, for the most part. However\u2026when I came back, we weren\u2019t able to save everything. So I backed up my phone, wiped it, and restored it from said backup. I saved most of my info, but the biggest thing that did not come with the transfer was all my music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was quite sad about this. I lost all my playlists and the carefully-selected albums from our family\u2019s musical repertoire, which meant going and doing all that work again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Christmas season busied everything considerably, and I didn\u2019t get around to fixing my lack of music until this week. Now that I finally have music back on my phone again, I have listened pretty much non-stop since. I\u2026kind of like music. If you couldn\u2019t tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, once again reminds me to spend time in the quiet. Because apparently it discomfited me so much that I had to counteract it with days straight of music. However, I think there are also benefits to this problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find that my memory is pretty good. I can recall lyrics from years and years ago with no trouble, and I have memorized so many Bible verses through the Seeds Family Worship (now Seeds Kids Worship) albums I listened to while falling asleep throughout my childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also find that music is an easy way for me to emotionally connect to things, and that worship music is a way I connect with the Lord. I love analyzing music lyrics, and when I sing\/listen to worship music I love dissecting what it is saying about who Jesus is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway\u2026this was kind of a random Secretary\u2019s Corner. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s really a life lesson here, except maybe that procrastination can deprive you of many things (maybe music).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessings on your week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So before I ventured across the ocean in September, my mother offered to switch phones with me, so I would have access to a better camera for pictures. And anyone who has seen my photography skills know I need all the help I can get\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/secretarys-corner-60-january-15\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,103,12],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secretarys-corner","tag-blog","tag-music","tag-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}