My mother used to sing this hymn as she went about her housework; and so did her mother, before her. Oh, it brings them back to me!
I Need Thee Every Hour, sung here by Fernando Ortega. Excuse me while I dry my eyes.
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‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
This hymn has never meant more to me than it does now: I Need Thee Every Hour, sung here by Fernando Ortega. (My mother and my grandma used to sing it, too.)
Yes, I need Jesus! We all need you, Lord. Especially when things go very wrong. I didn’t know what was going to happen to me in that hospital yesterday. Somehow I feel I was lucky to get out in one piece last night.
O Christ my shield and helmet! We are your people, the sheep of your hand… and we need our shepherd.
P.S.–Yes, I still want to post Christmas hymns this weekend. Requests, anyone?
‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
My mother used to sing this as she did her housework. So did my aunts. I guess they got it from Grandma. How this hymn brings them all back to me! I Need Thee Every Hour, sung by Fernando Ortega.
‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
This is another hymn my mother and my aunts used to sing as they went about their housework: I Need Thee Every Hour, sung by Fernando Ortega.
Lord, I need thee every hour and that’s no lie!
‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
When I was a little boy, my mother and my aunts used to sing this hymn while they went about their housework: I Need Thee Every Hour, sung here by the Mennonite Hour Singers. Background sets by God the Father.
‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
My mother and my aunts used to sing this hymn. I’m old enough now to see how true it is!
Sung here by the Mennonite Hour Singers: I Need Thee Every Hour.
Background sets by God the Father.
‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
I remember my mother singing this hymn as she went about her housework. My grandma used to sing it, too. I Need Thee Every Hour, sung here by the Mennonitce Hour Singers. Background sets by God the Father.
By Request, ‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
Ina from Scotland asked for “any Burl Ives hymn” and left it up to me to pick it, so I chose this one for her–I Need Thee Every Hour. I remember my grandma, my mother, and my aunts singing this around the house as they accomplished the day’s chores.
Yes, Lord, we need thee! And only You know how much.
‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
I love the 19th-century hymns–especially the ones my mother or my aunts used to sing as they went about their housework. I Need Thee Every Hour first appeared in 1872. Sung here by the Mennonite Hour Singers. Background sets by God the Father.
‘I Need Thee Every Hour’
I can’t hear this hymn without remembering my mother singing it as she did her housework: I Need Thee Every Hour. This rendition is by Fernando Ortega.
I can’t say my parents were holy joes; but there was always a Bible in view (living room, their room, our room), always a picture of Jesus on the wall, and hymns sung or hummed or whistled as part of daily life.
I am glad we lived that way!