By request (here you go, Linda), here’s Give Thanks, performed by the Maranatha Singers.
Gee, I feel like Ed Sullivan.
Well, now we’ve got to go off to the nursing home to see my aunt, and I pray we find her well.
Tag: hymns
‘I Know that My Redeemer Liveth’
One of the readers here, Laura, mentioned this hymn a while back, before I’d learned how to post videos and pictures. I post it now because it goes to the heart of our faith.
The music is by Handel, part of The Messiah. The words were uttered by Job, when he had lost everything and was on the brink of death himself: “I know that my redeemer liveth… Yet in my flesh shall I see Him.”
Yes! Oh, yes!
Hymn, ‘O God, My God, I Seek Your Face’
By reader request.
I don’t know this hymn, so I hope I picked the right one. The a capella arrangement is very nice.
Hymn, ‘You Raise Me Up’
By reader request, here’s You Raise Me Up. Linda, I hope you like this version by Celtic Woman.
Sing This One as Loud as You Can!
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee: the melody is borrowed from Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, but who cares? We need more hymns like this!
I don’t know what you’ll think of it, but this version brought me to tears. Maybe I’m turning into an old softy. Nah… If this hymn doesn’t stir your soul, you’re ready for an autopsy.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands!
Hymn, ‘The Wexford Carol’
My editor, Susan, suggested this one. I’d never heard of it.
But wow! This is gorgeous. The combination of an angelic singing voice (Alison Krauss), cello (Yo-Yo Ma), and bagpipes?–yes, bagpipes–is as beautiful as it is unexpected.
Hymn, ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’
I couldn’t wait till tomorrow to post this. It’s an old French hymn, and I love it. Angels We Have Heard on High–right out of the Gospel of Luke. I hope you enjoy it, as I do.
P.S.–I fully expected someone to win the Comment Contest today, but things kind of ground to a halt this afternoon. If you post the 4,000th comment here, you win one of my books.
‘Away in a Manger’ (American Melody)
This is the usual melody when Americans sing Away in a Manger. If you’re tuning in from the UK or thereabouts, you might not have heard it before.
And now I’ve got to stop blogging and get some work done. There’s piles and piles of it around here. *sigh*
Hymn, ‘Away in a Manger’ (English Melody)
Some Americans, hearing this tune without the lyrics, wouldn’t know it’s Away in a Manger. This is the melody that goes with the song as they sing it in Britain. My wife selected this version.
Keep the requests coming, folks–even if I’m not able to post all of them today. There’s always tomorrow. I’ll do them all, if I possibly can.
Hymn, ‘Stille Nacht’
This is Silent Night in the original German–with Nana Mouskouri as an unexpected bonus.
If, like me, you had great-grandparents or grandparents born in Germany, this will bring tears to your eyes. Guaranteed.
Let us bathe our souls in the beauties of holiness.