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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!
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  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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The Flip Side of Giving

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When I took a moment today to consider the word give, all I could think about was if you give something, you deny something else.  There’s always a flip side to giving.  Made me wonder, is it the flip side that stops people from giving freely?

The Flip Side of Giving

 Charity, Charity
Give to my charity!
Comes the call again & again.
Sometimes I shudder thinking:
If I give twenty to you.
Then I need to give twenty to the next guy.
And then where is my bread for the week?
Charity, Charity
Give to my charity!
Comes the call once again.
Sometimes I hesitate thinking:
But if I give it to you
Then what happens if I need it?
Then it’s gone!
Charity, Charity
Give to my charity!
Comes the call at my door
Sometimes I don’t to answer thinking: 
Again?  You come again?
Don’t you know I’m having supper with the family? 
Should I encourage these interruptions? 

Charity, Charity
Give to my charity!
Comes the call on the line

Sometimes I temporize in my thinking: 

I don’t know you,
How did you get this number?
Can I trust them?
Charity, Charity
Give to my charity!
Comes the call
In all the hesitation, 
this refrains beats in my soul:
Be generous in in your giving.
Don’t be stingy.
Those who trust God want for nothing.
Give from a willing heart.
Trust God, he’ll meet your needs.
And I am chastened.

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Have you discovered this?

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Discover Defined
 – find (something or someone) unexpectedly or in the course of a search.
 – Divulge (as in a secret)

Proverbs 16:19-21

19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
    than to divide the spoil with the proud.
20 Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good,
    and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
 
21 The wise of heart is called discerning,
    and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.

I read those words tonight and oh.. it was like sweet music to my ears.
Do you see it yourself?
Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good.
The word is good.

Oh that makes me want to ask you reader…have you discovered this? 
Have you learned this secret?
Has this truth be divulged to your heart?

When you go to the word of God, do you see it’s goodness?
Turn to it.
Learn it.
See this secret for the truth it holds.
The word of God is good. 

 
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This is a five minute Friday post. the word prompt is brought to us by Miss Kate over at Five Minute Friday.  What is Five Minute Friday? 
Well it’s a party of a group of like minded folks who gather on Friday
to do a five minute free write around a singular word.  AND THEN (and
this is the most important part) we take the time to offer up
encouragement to each other on this writing journey.  It’s fun, though
it’s not always easy, but it is always good.   Come join us won’t you? 
You are always welcome.

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Today I was Brave

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Guess what… today I was brave.
And the whole time…

I was quaking in my shoes!


I shared a poem of mine with a lady at the foodbank.
See, we’d just been talking about the writers’ conference that I had been too, and she wanted to know why I’d been and if I was writing a book.  

I said “I write poetry”.  
The answer was OH?
Tell me something you wrote
Won’t you my dear?
I pulled out a quick one
My phone so handy you know?
Opened up the browser and picked
One called Grow.
She said “Oh, I like this, 
Can I see another?
So I bravely, yet quaking within
Pulled out Listen, Listen my Child
She fell in love, reading it again
Saying, send this to me
Here’s the email, I want to show this to others.
Share will you please?
My heart about bursting
I did as she asked.
I mentioned I hoped to publish someday
A book with poems and pictures to colour.
I think that’s a great idea
Words spoken to my heart.
So perhaps one day
More brave I will be.

 

Linking up here: B is for Books.

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Share, it’s a thing to learn

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What does it mean to share?  

It’s odd how some things stick with you for years.  I remember when my lad was a wee youngster and we were trying to be part of a play group and they had this rule that if a child was playing with something, and another child wanted it we needed to teach them to share, so child one would have to give up the toy so that other child could have it.  This rule was enforced and it bothered me mightily at the time, and I guess it still does.  All those toys my lad was forced to give up…for another child’s selfishness…I WANT DAT!  and so my lad would kindly give it up…  seemed so dreadfully unfair.

I suppose it’s a hard balance … to teach sharing without encouraging selfishness. We didn’t last in that play group as the balance just wasn’t there.


Share
It’s a hard thing to balance
to share and not demand.
To teach our children 
the give and take
that so many need to learn.
To take
 demands that we also give.
Our time,
Our attention,
From whom we would take.
 Just as to give
demands that we also give
Our time
Our attention
to whom we would impart.
To see the need.
to know the demand
to make the judgement call
on whose need is greater.
That of the askee
or that of the giver.

Whose need do we see 
as more worthy?
It’s a hard one to teach.
It’s a hard one to learn.
But that’s what it means
to 
SHARE.
Those who are kind benefit themselves
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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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I Read

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Today’s word prompt is read, bringing to mind one of my favourite activities of the day.  Reading with my lad.  Our current read is called “out of time”, a marvellous fiction book that has my lad daily clamouring “read more, read more”.

I Read
I read to my lad
everyday
As we eat our breakfast
and plan our day.
Tales of history
of days gone by
Knights, and maidens
Treasures that lie.
Tales of geography
What places we’d go
Switzerland, Scotland
Australia down low.
Tales of science
the animals we’ve seen
Genetics, Robotics, 
That frog is not green!
Tales that are made up
our imaginations soar
Our breakfast is simple, 
those tales, do not bore.
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