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On this Valentine’s Day I thought I would share the hymn that has taken up residence in my heart. That was wonderful. What a beautiful message. Not bad! I always think our version of this is anemic. The Welsh do it better. Love it. Thanks Mom! Thanks, mom! Beautiful lyrics that will ring in my mind all day. I’m always looking for things that I think Mutual-age kids could do. There are tons of arrangements, one by Mac Wilberg. (“Here I Am, Lord”) But I really like it as a straight-up hymn in the one you posted. SamBee wrote:The Welsh do it better.
Duh, of course!😆 But I still think that when LDS wards are clicking, we have great congregational singing. The trick lately, I think, is keeping our skills up by singing and loving the “good stuff” of the hymnal.A question: can a ward choir director go ahead and use it in a sacrament meeting? Or, do they have to jump thru hoops & get permission, etc to use a song that is considered “outside” the lds church hymn book?
Quote:But I still think that when LDS wards are clicking, we have great congregational singing. The trick lately, I think, is keeping our skills up by singing and loving the “good stuff” of the hymnal.
Amen Sister.
My favorite line
Quote:I will go Lord, if you lead me, I will hold your people in my heart.Miniyan Man – It is Methodist so I assume we can borrow it since many of our hymns have Methodist beginnings.
mom3 wrote:Quote:But I still think that when LDS wards are clicking, we have great congregational singing. The trick lately, I think, is keeping our skills up by singing and loving the “good stuff” of the hymnal.
Amen Sister.
My favorite line
Quote:I will go Lord, if you lead me, I will hold your people in my heart.Miniyan Man – It is Methodist so I assume we can borrow it since many of our hymns have Methodist beginnings.
Another amen, sisters.
MM, I agree with Mom. From handbook 2 (14.4.2)
Quote:The hymns are the basic music for worship services and are standard for all congregational singing. In addition, other appropriate selections may be used for prelude and postlude music, choir music, and special musical presentations. If musical selections other than the hymns are used, they should be in keeping with the spirit of the hymns. Texts should be doctrinally correct. (See “Hymns for Congregations,” Hymns, 380–81.)
I think this one is definitely in the spirit of the hymns (as pointed out, it is a Methodist hymn and is found in other hymnals) and I think the text is doctrinally correct.
Soapbox: Actually one of the “special numbers” I used to hear a lot, but not as much recently, is
I Heard Him Come. While mostly correct, this line seems to me to be not doctrinally correct: Quote:Nations fall behind him
The rivers crawl to find him.
Mountains move
Just to let him through.
I don’t see anywhere in scripture where nations fell behind him, rivers crawled to find him or mountains moved just to let him through. It was a pet peeve of mine. I don’t see where it could be said those lines are doctrinally correct. (end rant)
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I don’t see anywhere in scripture where nations fell behind him, rivers crawled to find him or mountains moved just to let him through. It was a pet peeve of mine. I don’t see where it could be said those lines are doctrinally correct.I totally picture a Jon McNaughton picture. Christ in the middle and nations all lying in the dust, smoke billowing from the carnage. Or Oroville Dam flooding behind him. You know like it happened in the New Testament.
Minyan Man wrote:A question: can a ward choir director go ahead and use it in a sacrament meeting?
Hope so!
In my experience it all depends on the working relationships between the bishop and the ward music chairperson and choir director. How much trust and latitude does the bishop give, how much musical tastes align, etc. And what your choir enjoys.
What are the rules about hymns not in the current book? I was at a wedding where they sang “Jerusalem”, and there are a number of decent LDS hymns which are not in the book but not offensive or containing obsolete doctrine. ohh, I loved that! Thanks for sharing. Great song. Ward choirs can sing whatever they want to sing – as long as the Choir Director doesn’t ask for permission all the time (and Ian willing to be released if the choice is especially . . . Interesting.
Seriously, sometimes we simply ask too many questions. Pres. Kimball said, “Just do it” – so my defense would be that I was following the Prophet.
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