It’s been years and years–50 at least–since I’ve heard this hymn, Living for Jesus. A Sunday school favorite, big-time. I woke up with it today. I can still hear Mrs. R, with her lovely reedy voice, singing this as she played the piano.
I’m amazed that I remember almost all the words. Thank you, Father.
This 13-hundred=year-old Irish hymn is still found in many hymnals today–and still has power to stir our souls: Be Thou My Vision, sung here by Audrey Assad.
I started tearing up…
I’m still a bit woozy from the weekend’s medical interventions, but I do want to pull my weight as best I can.
This is the hymn that came to me just now: Immoral, Invisible, God Only Wise, presented by S.E. Samonte.
This 8th century hymn is still popular today. Older than the Crusades by some 200 years or more, performed here by the Lebanon County Youth Chrous–Be Thou My Vision.
They’re going to haul me off to the hospital again tomorrow morning; so if you have a hymn request, better make it now. I might not be here at all tomorrow.
For the time being, one of my favorites: Light of the World, by Charles Wesley, performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
I reckoned I would need something wholesome after reporting on government waste taken to a whole new level of irresponsible wickedness, and it’d be hard to find something more curative than this–Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, by Charles Wesley, sung by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
Lord, you can’t possibly come back to us too early!
I remember this hymn as a major hit circa 1970, sung by Cat Stevens before he lost the label: Morning Has Broken, sung here by the Halton Warehouse Choir and Ensemble. Who knew a warehouse could be an ideal place for choir practice?
I was way too weak and sick to do anything much for Christmas–although (thank God for this!) it really felt like Christmas.
I felt a need for a carol today, and this was the first that came along: Ding-Dong Merrily on High, sung by the King’s College Church Choir.
Who doesn’t need a nip of Christmas now and then?
Hooray, a hymn request! This one from Thewhererabbit: a classic hymn by Fanny Crosby, performed by the Voice of Evesham Christian Center–Blessed Assurance.
It was the mountains that won me over. Work of God’s hands!
This was the first hymn that came to mind today. At first I was sorely tempted to run it as performed by Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish in Night of the Hunter; but I decided that wasn’t really where I wanted to be.
And so, instead, Alan Jackson sings Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.