"A Woman's Clear Voice....Lilting In Song"
"Come unto me, all ye who are weary
and heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.". ...Matthew 11:25
It wasn't a big church, as churches go,
but it was pretty full that Sunday
as it usually was but over time
its people were mired
in cares of the world and just
"getting along" the trail of life...
and maybe had lost some zeal,
concern for sin, and warmth
from earlier simpler times of life...
Besides all that, a good many
of the grand old hymns
of Christianity were unused and
languished in favor of the
so-called-marvelous-contemporary
music...and forgotten and
never heard anymore hardly at all
were:
"Just As I Am, Without One Plea,"
"Jesus Paid It All"
"I Am Coming To The Cross"
"Jesus Is Tenderly Calling Thee home"
So it happened one Sunday
that the pianist was playing
an "old" much- used hymn--not many
years ago--during the "meditation time..."
and she slowed and began
to repeat the glorious melody---and
all at once, out of the clear blue
---and surprising the people
came from far in the back--
"A woman's clear voice, lilting in song!"
"Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling for you and for me,
See on the portals he's waiting
and watching,
Watching for you...and for me...
Come home, come home,
Ye who are weary come home;
Earnestly, tenderly Jesus is calling:
Calling O sinner come home."
And the Holy Spirit of God came that day
to that place of worship,
and sinners were touched and went
to the altar in tears and knelt, saying
in their hearts--in deep repentance
"I've wandered far away from God,
Now I'm coming home."
and this was witnessed by the people,
and the Cosmos, and the angels and
their names were entered that day--
in the Lamb's Book of Life...
never to be erased.
"A woman's clear voice, lilting in song..."
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MIL
MONDAY MUSE,
22 JULY 2019
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