I’m stuck for what to write today, but not stuck for a hymn.
Requested by Phoebe: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus, performed by the Living Stones Quartet.
Maybe if I sit outside, something will come to me.
Category: religion
‘He Leadeth Me’
This hymn goes way back into Sunday school for me: He Leadeth Me, sung by Rosemary Siemens. Lord, we are your people, the sheep of your hand–and we need our shepherd.
‘Down to the River to Pray’
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high… Psalm 46:4.
Do you suppose this is the river that the Psalmist meant? It’s the river of the spirit, and it flows everywhere.
By Request, ‘Just As I Am’
My mother and my grandma used to sing this as they went about their housework, when I was a little boy–Just As I Am. Requested by Erlene, sung here by the Antrim Mennonite Choir.
By Request, ‘Morning Has Broken’
Cat Stevens made this a popular song in the 1970s; but long before that, it was a hymn.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit, sung by the Halton Warehouse Choir–Morning Has Broken.
It might just stick with you all day.
By Request, ‘Via Dolorosa’
Requested by Erlene: On location in Jerusalem, Sandi Patty sings Via Dolorosa. How much has this street and its surroundings changed since Jesus was there? I can hardly imagine what it must be like to stand there and take it in.
‘Bringing in the Sheaves’
I don’t know what put this hymn into my head–sheaves aren’t plentiful around here lately–but here it is: Bringing in the Sheaves, sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford. We loved singing this in Sunday school.
‘Rock of Ages’
This is an evil day on the calendar; but the Rock of Ages is our shelter and defense.
Written by Augustus Toplady in 1775; sung here by the Antrim Mennonite Choir. Background sets by God the Father.
‘The Son of God Goes Forth to War’
I have just enough time to post this before going to the doctor to find how how badly my life is going to be turned upside-down. I don’t know what will be the state of my morale when I get back.
For the time being, a hymn: The Son of God Goes Forth to War, sung by Joe Stout…
(Coming back from the war, that’s the tricky part.)
By Request, ‘Alpha and Omega’
(Sorry I’m late! I just wanted to stay in bed, wasn’t feeling well, etc.)
Requested by Erlene: the Gaithers sing Alpha and Omega. It’s sort of the Book of Revelation set to music.