How the hymn brightened my achy day. I will treasure it. Loved the commentary. Ha! You sowed the seed of that mining metaphor. Truth be told even Pennsylvania mined coal had its use, and I remember the scent of it.
Thanks for this hymn & our word of the week, and Happy November, Remembrance Day, All Saints and All Souls to you and the readers. May we remember and honor our fathers and mothers, and uncles…and all they dared and dreamed. As believers we long with Newman for the night to end and for Jesus to bring that bright Morn in which “those angel faces smile/which I have loved long since/and lost a while.”
We are so glad to hear that you so love the hymn and Tony's post about it. So much of what we do here at Word & Song is to remember things and talk about those things to keep them alive in that way. Thanks for joining us! And for remembering!
You have retrieved and illumined another gem.
How the hymn brightened my achy day. I will treasure it. Loved the commentary. Ha! You sowed the seed of that mining metaphor. Truth be told even Pennsylvania mined coal had its use, and I remember the scent of it.
Thanks for this hymn & our word of the week, and Happy November, Remembrance Day, All Saints and All Souls to you and the readers. May we remember and honor our fathers and mothers, and uncles…and all they dared and dreamed. As believers we long with Newman for the night to end and for Jesus to bring that bright Morn in which “those angel faces smile/which I have loved long since/and lost a while.”
We are so glad to hear that you so love the hymn and Tony's post about it. So much of what we do here at Word & Song is to remember things and talk about those things to keep them alive in that way. Thanks for joining us! And for remembering!