tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post8542663266403096761..comments2024-03-27T15:41:01.956-04:00Comments on rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague<br>rhymeswithplague: Who are you thanking?rhymeswithplaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-70383484413785864202011-11-26T09:43:05.332-05:002011-11-26T09:43:05.332-05:00This is true, Bob - and one not demanding such a t...This is true, Bob - and one not demanding such a trouser - filling tessitura from both sexes, at that! xxElizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05792185208462306952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-7520976025489999882011-11-26T08:33:45.311-05:002011-11-26T08:33:45.311-05:00Jinksy, I'm thankful you're here today too...<b>Jinksy</b>, I'm thankful you're here today too!<br /><br /><b>Elizabeth</b>, I appreciate your insights. Someone elsewhere called "Now Thank We All Our God" a Dutch Reformed song, which is a bit strange since it was written by a German Lutheran pastor. As for the new "Carol of the Star" at least we now have an alternate tune for the words <i>"venite adoremus, Dominum"</i> in our heads.rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-84005955170615052722011-11-26T07:27:24.283-05:002011-11-26T07:27:24.283-05:00So many of these traditional hymns were by writers...So many of these traditional hymns were by writers who had been brought through tremendous times of adversity or inner turmoil.Witness Newton sitting in the middle of the sea storm composing 'Amazing Grace' in his fear, or Scriven unable to be with his dying mother to comfort her in her last days. Perhaps there is a sense in which at times like that we are all faced with a sense of our own mortality and seek a way of expressing it and it has to be said that sometimes (by no means, always!) the theology in these outpourings is eccentrically awry, but that aside, they not only express a profound faith quality in their authors but carry an authority of experience that some of the more modern offerings do not.<br /><br />In contrast, you mentioned in a previous post a new carol. Although it was too 'Tinkerbell turns to Scripture' for my musical and theological tastes, there was something deeper that jarred with me. Whilst I'm sure that worshipful consideration is there, many of the modern songs are written for competitions or by professional poets and there is nothing intrinsically wrong in that, but they somehow don't carry that seal of authentic 'ownership' of what is being sung about. I call them candy floss songs - lots of sugar, but not much substance. xElizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05792185208462306952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2286321024842109960.post-41860237773402154742011-11-25T05:05:49.691-05:002011-11-25T05:05:49.691-05:00I'm thankful that I'm here today -
as for ...I'm thankful that I'm here today -<br />as for tomorrow? Come what may! lolJinksyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01686101468214361004noreply@blogger.com