Hymn, ‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’

This Welsh melody is traditionally called Cwm Rhondda and has various renderings into English. I’ve posted it once as Bread of Heaven. This is a very popular hymn and a good way to start our day. This is another one you can really belt out–and should.

I don’t mean to turn into a Christian DJ or something like that, but suddenly these hymns seem mighty important. We live in an anti-Christian age, in a Christian country that is rapidly being de-Christianized, debauched, and debased before our very eyes.

Hymns are a way of connecting with our God, and the time has come to sing them louder, louder, every day.

He will hear us.

Welsh Hymn, ‘Calon Lan’

The title of this traditional hymn means “Pure Heart,” and I don’t understand a word of the Welsh lyrics, sung by Cerys Matthews. I don’t feel any need to translate. Beauty has no need of a translation.

The hymn speaks to me without words. Relax, and let it speak to you.

Hymn, ‘Bread of Heaven’

Welsh miners singing in How Green Was My Valley (English subtitles)

Once upon a time, on a little 15-minute Christian radio show whose name I can’t remember, I heard a woman say a very wise thing.

“When your faith is shaky; when you don’t know for sure, anymore, that God is with you; when the bad things in life keep piling up; when you just don’t know what’s what–

“That’s when you have to sing louder!”

What can I say but Amen?