We continue with Your Favorite Hymns–as we’ll be doing for a while, as it’s become a long listen and you can always add to it.
What a Friend We Have in Jesus, sung by Doc Watson. How many times, I wonder, has he sung this hymn in public: and yet you can see how it moves him.
As it should move us.
Going down the list of your favorite hymns as submitted by you, the readers, we come to another beautiful hymn with the performers not listed–O To Be Like Thee. Very sweet, whoever you are.
It’s not too late to have your favorite hymns added to the list. Just leave a comment anywhere.
We’ve got over 40 of your favorite hymns on the list now, and we’re going to post each one of them. Don’t worry about being too late: the hymn shop’s always open.
This rendition of Be Still, My Soul is about the most beautiful I’ve ever heard–and I don’t know who’s singing it. But we know whose hand shaped the backgrounds, don’t we?
I have a nice long list, now, of your favorite hymns, and I’m going to post them all in the order in which I received them. And the list can be added to, so don’t think you missed your chance.
Requested by Lydia (I think): The Love of God, by the Mennonite Hour Singers. Gorgeous background sets by God the Father.
Taking a break from writing outside in the broiling sun, I count 33 favorite hymns on the list so far–and that’s just from four of you.
I’ve decided it doesn’t matter how long the list turns out to be. But it was easy to decide what to do with all these hymns.
Post ’em!
We don’t have to worry about running out hymns. The more, the merrier. Open wide the doors of the hymn shop! And if it crowds out some of the nooze, well, them’s the breaks. Hymns are all about good news.
We like to start every blogging day here with a hymn, and I like to post the hymns that you request. When left to my own devices, I’m afraid I tend to repeat myself and choose the same relatively few hymns again and again–because they’re my favorites. Light of the World, Hyfrydol, To Be a Pilgrim: well, what can I say?
I’d love to know what your favorite hymns are. I know it’s impossible to pick just one, so please feel free to list as many as you like.
I’ll keep track of the ones that are mentioned and will report to you which hymns seem to be the most popular. Don’t be bashful! If you only knew how hard it is to elicit a wide reader response… you’d wonder why I try. But I’m really interested in what you all have to say.
