I’m with Nancee! What a bracing hymn! Thank you! Great start to my day. Long drive from Iowa City to Columbus; one home to another. Poignant reminder of the home to where we are all headed. Perfect ender/beginner to Memorial Day.
Anne, this is one of our family's favorite hymns -- and of course we have many. But on the day dedicated to those who served to the final measure, this one is perfect. I'm glad you got to hear it on your drive yesterday!
Listening to this, the hymn I hope will be sung at my funeral, the tears burst from my eyes so I can hardly write! What an amazing rendition of this magnificant hymn! I actually like both tunes of this hymn and hope to have the other one at the beginning and this tune at the end! What a great hymn!! Thank you so MUCH for sharing this!!
This kind of hymn fires the soul, and it is a gift to be able to sing it in a congregation. People need to sing theologically sound and musically excellent hymns at funerals. There is true comfort and consolation. There is no room for schlock music at funerals.
I’m with Nancee! What a bracing hymn! Thank you! Great start to my day. Long drive from Iowa City to Columbus; one home to another. Poignant reminder of the home to where we are all headed. Perfect ender/beginner to Memorial Day.
Anne, this is one of our family's favorite hymns -- and of course we have many. But on the day dedicated to those who served to the final measure, this one is perfect. I'm glad you got to hear it on your drive yesterday!
Listening to this, the hymn I hope will be sung at my funeral, the tears burst from my eyes so I can hardly write! What an amazing rendition of this magnificant hymn! I actually like both tunes of this hymn and hope to have the other one at the beginning and this tune at the end! What a great hymn!! Thank you so MUCH for sharing this!!
Oh, I agree! And I've come to love the Welsh hymn even better, that is translated as Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah -- in the Welsh it is titanic.
This kind of hymn fires the soul, and it is a gift to be able to sing it in a congregation. People need to sing theologically sound and musically excellent hymns at funerals. There is true comfort and consolation. There is no room for schlock music at funerals.