I’m not here just now. I have to take Patty to her new doctor for an 8 a.m. appointment. Please pray that this time it does some good!
Meanwhile, There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy was the first hymn they had us sing, so long ago, when our Sunday school hymnal gave way to the regular church hymnal that the grownups used. I didn’t know it could be sung to the same melody as Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Sung here by Nate Macy.
I was thinking of this hymn, these past few days. Back in Sunday school, when we were introduced to the adult hymnal used in the regular church services, this was the first hymn that they had us sing. We had kind of an odd hymnal, though, with melodies you never heard in other churches: so I couldn’t find There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy with the melody that I remembered.
Sung here by the Sanctuary Choir.
Today’s hymn–well, yes, I could always post another, if someone asks for it–comes to us via the Harvard University Choir: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy. Quite a beautiful rendition of it.
The seed sown by the Son of Man sprouts up in unexpected places.