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A Pearl Seeker: To Know God is Real

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The other morning friends of ours stopped in for a bit.  I dearly love this lady and her hubby, they are sweet people with a strong heart for the Lord God.  It is always a good thing to spend time with them.   We can easily talk about the things of God, as well as the things in our everyday lives (I’m not trying to make them sound different or separate) it’s just that sometimes it’s easy to have friends that are only in one aspect of your life and not in both.  This couple is very real and know that God is real too.  

Anyways, the opening section of this chapter made me think of them, about our need to see the realness of God.  How we can’t know him, if we don’t take the time to understand him, and learn about him and spend time with him.   God needs to be real to us.
AND if God is real to us, we aren’t content to just let him slip through the cracks, we find ourselves wanting to spend more and more time with him. If God’s reality isn’t as clear to us, it’s easy to skate by with the bare minimum… not attending services, not studying his word, not doing most anything.  BUT the more we spend in the word, the more we want to know God’s goodness and grace and favour and see more and more how we can better live for him.   It’s actually pretty amazing how that works out. 
Remember these words from Colossians 3:16:
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Let the word dwell in you.. live it out.  Show it, sing it, work it out, Let it dwell in you.  Christ’s word, all it’s fullness and richness. 
Be an adult Christian, not baby fed.  Seek out God’s truth, be active in your faith.  It’s important.  Know who God is by looking for him in the word that he has given us.  LOOK for him.   Don’t accept the tidbits others offer you…but really LOOK.

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Hymn Study: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

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I have to admit, I waffled a bit today on which hymn study to do.  O perfect love or this one, and thought this one better suited for this Remembrance Day Sunday.  The service we were at this morning changed some of the lyrics and played the song at an odd cadence, but it was good to sing a song I haven’t for a while.  

This song has been attributed to Francis of Assissi. He was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.  He cared for the poor and sick, preached sermons to animals and considered all creatures brothers and sisters under God.  He is the patron saint of animals and ecology.

Lyrics
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
And where there’s doubt, true faith in you
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there’s despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there’s sadness ever joy
Oh, master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul
Make me a channel of your peace
It isn’t pardoning that we are pardoned
In giving to all men let we receive
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life
Oh, master…

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Hymn Study: Follow On

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Today’s word of the day for the Write 31 Day Challenge is Follow.  So I thought I’d look for a hymn (cause it’s Sunday you know) but didn’t know one off the top of my head, so I went a hunting and found this one called Follow On (Down in the valley with my saviour I would go).  I like the upbeat tune and could probably have a lot of fun singing this song. 🙂

This Hymn was written by William Orcutt Cushing.  Born in Massachusetts in 1823, he is the author of several hymns.  He served as a minister within the Unitarian Church for 27 years, when he had to retire due to a creeping paralysis.  After finishing his ministry he asked God for another job and he found himself turned to hymn writing.  He wrote a good 300 hymns.  He kept himself useful for the Lord, dying in 1902.

 

Lyrics
1 Down in the valley with my Savior I would go,
Where the flowers are blooming and the sweet waters flow;
Everywhere He leads me I will follow, follow on,
Walking in His footsteps till the crown be won. 
Chorus:
Follow! follow! I will follow Jesus!
Anywhere, everywhere, I will follow on!
Follow! follow! I will follow Jesus!
Everywhere He leads me I will follow on!
2 Down in the valley with my Savior I would go,
Where the storms are sweeping and the dark waters flow;
With His hand to lead me I will never, never fear,
Danger cannot fright me if my Lord is near. (Chorus)
3 Down in the valley or upon the mountain steep,
Close beside my Savior would my soul ever keep;
He will lead me safely in the path that He has trod,
Up to where they gather on the hills of God. (Chorus)

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Review: Caroling Through The Psalms

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Hi!   Do you remember me reviewing a book called Psalm Hymns?  It’s fine if you don’t, but it was this cool book that put the words of the Psalms to familiar tunes.   Well, they have put out a boof called Caroling through the Psalms.


Now I have to tell you this… not all this music is new.  About 2/3rd’s is taken from their regular Psalm Hymns book with the last 1/3 coming from the newest work in progress. 

They’ve excerpted this selection to make an easy to use book just for the holidays, making it easier for people to focus on God in all the festivities of Christmas.   Check it out, all the tunes are familiar hymn tunes we sing at Christmas.

 You will notice that each hymn has the tune (and alternate if needed) listed in the top corner of the page.   There are no notes that were present in the first Psalm Hymn book that I reviewed.

 28 hymns to bring us back to God during the Christmas season.   Isn’t that just a marvellous thing?   NO really.. isn’t it?  Imagine singing through the Psalms with the elderly or the sick, bringing that comfort from God’s word. 

Want to grab this book and use it to sing hymns at Christmas time?  Well it’s rather wonderful, they’ve made the font larger for ease in singing.  (who wants to squint while caroling eh?)  Makes it a great gift to give to seniors as well as the larger font is easier on the eyes you know?

Caroling Through The Psalms
LL Larkins
Capture Books
paperback, music, hymns, faith

 reviewed for: Capture Books

Where can you find it?

Amazon.ca: Caroling through the Psalms.
Amazon.com: Caroling through the Psalms.

If you would like to follow some of the practices
and ideas for singing the Carols, you can go to this group and join
up. Facebook Psalm Hymns.

Group discounts are also available there.

They can buy their own copies for after-holiday-dinner-fun or for performances through CreateSpace:  http://www.capturemebooks.com/product-page/caroling-through-the-psalms

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Hymn Study: Send the Light

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I’m so thrilled today that I was able to quickly find a hymn that went with today’s word prompt LIGHT.   The hymn is called “Send the Light”.   It was written by Charles H. Gabriel, who wrote it while a choir member at the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in San Francisco, California.


Charles H Gabriel lived 1856-1932, he taught himself, while living on his Iowa farm, to play the family reed organ.  He began teaching others how to sing when he was 16, and became well known as a teacher, composer and singer.

He served as music director at Grace Methodist Episcopal church in California, but eventually move to Illinois, where he worked for a publishing company.  During his work, he edited some 43 song books, 7 men’s chorus books, 19 anthem collections, and 23 cantatas. He composed at least 50 hymns, and wrote music for almost 200 other hymns.

Lyrics for Send the Light

  1. There’s a call comes ringing o’er the restless wave,
    “Send the light! Send the light!”
    There are souls to rescue, there are souls to save,
    Send the light! Send the light! 
    • Refrain:
      Send the light, the blessed Gospel light;
      Let it shine from shore to shore!
      Send the light, and let its radiant beams
      Light the world forevermore!
    •  
  3. We have heard the Macedonian call today,
    “Send the light! Send the light!”
    And a golden off’ring at the cross we lay,
    Send the light! Send the light!
  4.  
  5. Let us pray that grace may everywhere abound,
    “Send the light! Send the light!”
    And a Christlike spirit everywhere be found,
    Send the light! Send the light!
  6.  
  7. Let us not grow weary in the work of love,
    “Send the light! Send the light!”
    Let us gather jewels for a crown above,
    Send the light! Send the light!

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This Garden Grows

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but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 
 Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching
and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
 we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ

This Garden Grows
Little by Little
this garden grows.
The plants they come up
row by row.
Sunlight and Dirt
Nutrients and Water
and just a wee bit of chatter
All that they need for growth to occur.
Little by Little
this garden grows.
The lad is maturing 
before my eyes.
 Grace and Wisdom
Food and Drink
and just a wee bit of chatter
All that he needs for growth to occur.
It’s happening
Right before my eyes.
It’s amazing to watch
him grow.

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A Pondering on the Word Remain

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I do a hymn study on Sundays, I have to admit, the word remain is proving to be elusive   You don’t find many, if any, hymns with the word remain in them.   I did find a scripture song that had the word remains in it, but it’s so new the copying the lyrics here could be problematic.  So nix that idea eh?


I got to thinking, why do I post about hymns?  It’s like, what’s the point?  There are times I wonder about not posting them, but then I think about the stories of faith that I would miss, the stories of people who have gone on before, jotting down their thoughts about the Lord, and how we can praise, honour, and adore him.  How we learn more about God in the words that we sing.

I want the history to remain with us.  To not be forgotten.  
It’s important to learn from those who have gone on before, you know?

Doing a hymn study, is the keeping on on the faith.
It’s a way to persevere our history.
A way to build lasting bridges.
Some hymns have endured the test of time.
Other hymns being not, not abiding.

Admittedly, there is a side benefit to me doing a hymn study weekly,
It’s gives me a song of praise that runs through my head most of the week.
Calling me back to God when I feel pushed about my life.
It’s a way God gives me to survive the hustle of life.

So what do you say?
Shall I persist with the sharing of the hymns of faith?
To continue my delving into history?
The musical history of the church?

I think I shall.  
It’s a joy bringer to my soul.
And that’s worth something don’t you think?

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