tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post3390267006525195597..comments2024-03-27T09:33:23.225-07:00Comments on Singing from the Lectionary: Songs, Hymns & Music for Epiphany 5B (February 4 2024)Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-59375930140778127052024-01-29T15:37:10.362-08:002024-01-29T15:37:10.362-08:00For the Gospel: NCH # 179 "We Yearn, O Christ...For the Gospel: NCH # 179 "We Yearn, O Christ, for Wholeness" to PASSION CHORALEWayne Bradleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-65115421999591866072024-01-21T18:02:42.457-08:002024-01-21T18:02:42.457-08:00"An Eagle Is Soaring," an original hymn ..."An Eagle Is Soaring," an original hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette based on Isaiah 40:30-31. Tune: ASH GROVE 6.6.11.6.6.11 D ("Let All Things Now Living").Ken Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15677335230634184445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-52558413514020516102021-02-02T10:31:27.439-08:002021-02-02T10:31:27.439-08:00Hi Natalie, thank you for your website - a great s...Hi Natalie, thank you for your website - a great source for a church musician! As a suggestion, there is a song "Wings of an Eagle" by a Canadian song-writer Steve Bell. It's one of our favorites.<br />https://youtu.be/ZTB1ICxz0t0<br />anthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00384063228942924534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-65219291501736445792021-01-31T02:14:02.800-08:002021-01-31T02:14:02.800-08:00Thank you for letting me know your concern. I can ...Thank you for letting me know your concern. I can see that my comment is easily misconstrued out of context. I have removed the comment.<br /><br />I know the story of Eric Liddell very well. My comment was, indeed, intended as a joke in response to the words of the Psalm that [God's] "delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the speed of a runner". What a contrast with the famous quote attributed to Liddell: "When I run, I feel God's pleasure". I much prefer Liddell's words to those of the Psalmist. <br /> Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-9956113864316847672021-01-27T09:13:57.966-08:002021-01-27T09:13:57.966-08:00Natalie I really enjoy your blog and I use it regu...Natalie I really enjoy your blog and I use it regularly to help with my worship planning so I thank you for all the work and thought you put into it. <br /><br />That's I was surprised and disappointed to read your flip comment about Eric Liddell in your introduction to Psalm 147. "God doesn’t take pleasure in the runner. Eric Liddell had it wrong after all." <br /><br />Eric's comment about feeling God's pleasure when he ran was a testament to his own deep faith in and love for God- his belief that God had given him a particular gift that was to be used. But not for the sake of vanity or pride- indeed the headmaster of his former school Eltham College described him as being "entirely without vanity."<br /><br />That lack of vanity was why Eric refused to run the heats for the 100m at the Paris Olympics in 1924 which he was favoured to win, going on to win gold in the 400m instead. He went on to serve as a Missionary in China with his wife Florence McKenzie. When he was interned in Weishien Camp by the invading Japanese, he organised sports, entertainments, taught bible classes and science, earning the nickname "Uncle Eric" from the young people. He shamed wealthy business men who had managed to smuggle eggs into the camp into sharing, and rejected the missionary cliques others formed inside. His death from a brain tumour left the whole camp devastated, and his wife an ocean away with three young daughters to raise. <br /><br />He has been described by theologian and fellow internee Langdon Gilkey as "as close to a saint as anyone I have ever known." He is considered a hero in the UK and in China.<br /><br />Perhaps "God doesn't take pleasure in the runner." but I think it would be pretty hard to argue that God did not take pleasure in Eric Liddell. <br /><br />I don't know why your comment was directed towards Eric's memory or what it was supposed to imply if anything beyond a joke (?!) but I would ask you to take it down. Thank you. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439666012797672714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-79008324752453976232018-02-01T13:35:22.043-08:002018-02-01T13:35:22.043-08:00Thanks Annette - that's the song!Thanks Annette - that's the song!Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-70441811362213027832018-01-31T23:34:14.144-08:002018-01-31T23:34:14.144-08:00Hi Natalie. The link to Walk with Me went to a My...Hi Natalie. The link to Walk with Me went to a MySpace page that I couldn't get to play the song, even though i could see it.<br />Is this the song?<br />https://soundcloud.com/yani-choirmistress/walk-with-me<br />AnnetteAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06576116081734030479noreply@blogger.com