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Simple Gifts
Bill Henderson
其他書名
The Hymns of My Life, a Memoir
出版Pushcart Press, 2023-12-05
主題Biography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsReligion / Christian Living / Personal Memoirs
ISBN9798985469745
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wU-uzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋I treasure some of the grand old hymns. My great joy is to sing them with people like me who hold them deep in their memories and call them forth with passion. At the nondenominational Rockbound Chapel, fastened to a granite boulder on a hill over the sea in Sedgwick, Maine, I sing songs with other summer visitors--strangers and people I barely know. In untrained, inelegant, often too-loud or too-soft voices, we sing to each other of our pain, loneliness, and fear, topics we would hesitate to admit flat out in gatherings after services. We also sing of love, grace, trust, hope, peace--sentiments that are left out of the usual daily patter. We sing words that matter to us. What follows is my celebration of classic hymns that have sustained me over the years, and more recently have given me hope--even joy--after a diagnosis of serious illness. There are hundreds of songs that I might have included here, but I particularly want to appreciate hymns that I consider to be world hymns--that do not insist on narrow theologies, but rather love, wonder, and simplicity, my names for God.