I should get this picture made into a badge and wear it as a standard response for everyone who keeps telling me I look tired.
I should get this picture made into a badge and wear it as a standard response for everyone who keeps telling me I look tired.
Somedays there’s nothing else but to listen to The Civil Wars sing From This Valley over and over.
This recording from a compilation project called Mercyland has great energy and seems to have been recorded while they were still having fun.
Oh the outcast dreams of acceptance
Just to find pure love’s embrace
Like an orphan longs for its mother
May you hold me in your grace
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Oh the caged bird dreams of a strong wind
That will flow beneath her wings
Like a voice longs for a melody
Oh Jesus, carry me
And because one rendition is never enough for me, here’s a live recording from July 2011 which I posted back in 2011, but features a little more vocal work in the third verse.
Another song written by Frances (Fanny) Jane Crosby (Frances Jane Van Alstyne) is Redeemed By The Blood Of The Lamb.
The version by Ernie Haase and Signature Sound is … rousing. And fun.
The lyrics
1
Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it!
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
Redeemed through His infinite mercy,
His child, and forever, I am.
2
Redeemed, and so happy in Jesus,
no language my rapture can tell;
I know that the light of his presence
with me doth continually dwell.
Refrain:
Redeemed, redeemed,
Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb;
Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it!
His child, and forever, I am.
3
I know I shall see in His beauty
The King in whose law I delight,
Who lovingly guardeth my footsteps,
And giveth me songs in the night.
Refrain:
This verse also exists, in a four verse setting it would be the third verse; sometimes it features in three verse settings instead of the third verse above.:
I think of my blessed Redeemer,
I think of Him all the day long;
I sing, for I cannot be silent;
His love is the theme of my song.
Westminster Larger Catechism – Lord’s Day 33
Q & A 137
Q Which is the seventh commandment?
A The seventh commandment is, “You shall not commit adultery”.
Q & A 138
Q What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
A The duties required in the seventh commandment are: chastity in body, mind, affections, words, and behavior; and the preservation of it in ourselves and others; watchfulness over the eyes and all the senses; temperance, keeping of chaste company, modesty in apparel; marriage by those that have not the gift of continency, conjugal love, and cohabitation; diligent labor in our callings; shunning all occasions of uncleanness, and resisting temptations thereunto.
Q & A 139
Q What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
A The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are: adultery, fornication, rape, incest, sodomy, and all unnatural lusts; all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections; all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto; wanton looks, impudent or light behavior, immodest apparel; prohibiting of lawful, and dispensing with unlawful marriages; allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them; entangling vows of single life, undue delay of marriage; having more wives or husbands than one at the same time; unjust divorce, or desertion; idleness, gluttony, drunkenness, unchaste company; lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays; and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.
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