Subject: RE: BS: Your Favourite Hymn
From:
Beccy
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 10:54 AM
Well, my hymn loyalty is equally divided between two favs. The first is "Be Thou My Vision"
Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart.
Naught be all else to me save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought by day or by night.
Waking of sleeping, Thy presence my light.
Riches I heed not, nor vain empty praise.
Thou mine inheritance now and always.
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
Great God of Heaven, my treasure Thou art.
Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
High King of Heaven when vict'ry is won.
May I reach Heaven's joys, bright Heaven's sun.
Heart of my heart, whatever befall,
Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
My second favorite is "For the Beauty of the Earth"
For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies;
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
For the beauty of each hour,
of the day and of the night,
hill and vale, and tree and flow'r,
Sun and moon, and stars of light;
Lord of all to Thee we raise,
This our hymn of grateful praise.
For the joy of ear and eye,
for the heart and mind's delight,
for the mystic harmony
linking sense to sound and sight.
Lord of all to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child.
Friends on earth and friends above,
for all gentle thoughts and mild;
Lord of all to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
... And of course there are the good, old, left-hand-pounding-out-the-bass hymns that I love, "Standing on the Promises" "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms", "O, Victory in Jesus", and so on... I'm a big time hymn-lover. I grew up listening to my Mom pound out the bass while my Grandpa was preaching. You'dve thought it was a Southern Baptist church instead of the United Methodist one that it actually was!
Beccy
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