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STLT#85, Although This Life Is But a Wraith
It’s a song for our time, this one. Now it sits in the middle of the mystical and meditation section, but it’s really a fight song, a reminder that we have to keep getting up off the mat, to always be open, to revel in that which brings us joy but not forget that there is Continue reading
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STLT#74, On the Dusty Earth Drum
It’s time for everybody’s favorite new game, “Who Will Love This Hymn I Hate” – this week, starring lyricist Joseph Cotter and composer Frederich Filitz! I wish I could make sense of this one. No, seriously. I mean, I get that the lyrics are a rain song, and thus appropriate for a section called The World Continue reading
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STLT#64, Oh, Give Us Pleasure in the Flowers Today
Man oh man. Robert Frost can really bring it, can’t he? There’s a reason he is one of the 20th century’s most celebrated poets – while this is not as famous as “The Wall” or “The Road Less Traveled” or “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” this poem too had impact and depth and Continue reading
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STLT#47, Now on Land and Sea Descending
More signs of life returning? Now on land and sea descending, brings the night its peace profound; let our vesper hymn be blending with the holy calm around. (Chorus) Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. Jubilate! Jubilate! Jubilate! Amen. Soon as dies the sunset glory, stars of heav’n shine out above, telling still the ancient story — Continue reading
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STLT#25, God of the Earth, the Sky, the Sea
Welcome to today’s edition of Hymn By Hymn, wherein Kimberley quibbles with the hymnal editors. God of the earth, the sky, the sea, maker of all above, below, creation lives and moves in you; your present life through all does flow. Your love is in the sunshine’s glow, your life is in the quick’ning air; Continue reading
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STLT#18, What Wondrous Love
What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, what wondrous love is this, O my soul? What wondrous love is this that brings my heart such bliss, and takes away the pain of my soul, of my soul, and takes away the pain of my soul. When I was sinking down, sinking Continue reading
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STLT#11, O God of Stars and Sunlight
O God of stars and sunlight, whose wind lifts up a bird, in marching wave and leaf-fall we hear thy patient word. The color of thy seasons goes gold across the land: by green upon the treetops we know thy moving hand. O God of cloud and mountain, whose rain on rock is art, thy Continue reading
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STLT#10, Immortal Love
Immortal love, forever full, forever flowing free, forever shared, forever whole, a never-ending sea! Our outward lips confess the name all other names above; but love alone knows whence it came and comprehendeth love. Blow, winds of love, awake and blow the mists of hate away; sing out, O Truth divine, and tell how wide Continue reading
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STLT#3, The World Stands Out on Either Side
The world stands out on either side no wider than the heart is wide; above the world is stretched the sky no higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land so far away on either hand; the soul can split the sky in two and let the face of Continue reading
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STLT#1 May Nothing Evil Cross this Door
May nothing evil cross this door, and may ill fortune never pry about these windows; may the roar and rain go by. By faith made strong, the rafters will withstand the battering of the storm. This hearth, though all the world grow chill, will keep you warm. Peace shall walk softly through these rooms, touching Continue reading
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