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General Commentgosh, i can't believe no one has commented on this song yet. Judah is a pure lyrical genius.if only he was a bit more comprehensible when he sang.haha. Don't get me wrong or anything, i love his voice, but let's just say i need the lyrics in hand when listening to their songs. But anyway, i believe this song could very well be a sort of story about a prize fighter, an.
As it was my custom since 2010, I would specially post a hymn on the 3rd may of the year. 3rd may had always been a special day in my life.So far I have shared the following hymns– May 3rd 2010– May 3rd 2011– May 3rd 2012– May 3rd 2013– May 3rd 2014– May 3rd 2015– May 3rd 2016– May 3rd 2017– May 3rd 2018Year 2019 is slightly kinder to me compared to 2018. There are plenty of things to thank God for. God had finally led me to a job to be able to feed my children. The workplace serves as a good relief and escape.At least life in a way is much more stable. Though sometimes the pain can be still hard and painful, but the mantra of Paul is often on my mind.“for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to befull and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”- Paul (Php 4:11-13)Recently this hymn is always in my mind. It was written by Horatio Spatford.
He is a man who I believe undergo way much more sufferings that I did. He composed the hymn after a series of misfortune befall him.
He lost his son(aged 2) at the great Chicago fire of 1871, which destroyed quite a lot of his properties. His business suffered because of the economic downturn.He planned to travel to Europe with his family on board SS Villie Du Havre, later on he had a change of plan and he sent his remaining family on board.
The ship sank in the Atlantic ocean in a collision, that costs the life of his four daughters, leaving his wife a sole survivor. The wife sent a telegram to him saying “Saved alone”He composed the hymn while on his way to comfort his grieving wife.Yet in the midst of these suffering he is able to write “It is well with my soul” What immense courage is that. So whenever I think about the tune and consider the thing that happened to him, I know that likewise I need to learn to handle difficulty and pain. It is by no means an easy task.
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Especially when the pain is coming from loved ones. As it was my custom since 2010, I would specially post a hymn on the 3rd may of the year. 3rd may had always been a special day in my life.So far I have shared the following hymns– May 3rd 2010– May 3rd 2011– May 3rd 2012– May 3rd 2013– May 3rd 2014– May 3rd 2015– May 3rd 2016– May 3rd 2017It is quite interesting to say that everything around me started to fall apart 2 months after that last post. I can still remember that last happy weekend where I was travelling down Bui Vien street enjoying Vietnamese egg coffee and coconut coffeeFrom that weekend onwards, peace seem so far away.
It was tore away bit by bit. It started out at work, with projects falling apart, team shrinking.
We continue to fight on back at work for the next 6 months, until it it finally led to unemployment.The only happy thing that came was the birth of my daughter, yet in the midst of that joy. The worry of not being able to find employment and to take care of her looms ominously in your mind. The probability that I may need to be separate from my children are there.This is on of the times you wish that there are some comfort from God, but you find God awfully silent. Yet instead you are surrounded by misunderstandings, accusations, criticism, and the demands of love, completely isolated and in painIt is one of these time that you wonder what is the point of holding on. What is the point of enduring?
Actually there are plenty of reasons to give up. But as these thoughts are running through my mind. The song by Prophet Habakkuk was ringing in my mind.“Though the fig tree may not blossom,Nor fruit be on the vines;Though the labor of the olive may fail,And the fields yield no food;Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,And there be no herd in the stalls—Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,I will joy in the God of my salvation.The Lord God is my strength;He will make my feet like deer’s feet,And He will make me walk on my high hills.” –Habakkuk (Hab 3:17-19)That is why for this time. Recently the lyrics of the hymn keep popping up in my mind. Especially the following few lines“Dark is the wilderness, Earth has no resting place,Perishing things of clay, born but for one brief dayAll that my soul has tried left but a dismal void;,”Recently in a personal correspondence with a friend, we were sharing about how easily one could be rob of peace. This is true especially for the past 2 months. On one hand my family is preparing for the joy of having a second child.
But suddenly in the span of 2 months, everything in my life went downhill. The peace that I was having for the past one year just suddenly disappeared. I suddenly feel so fragile, and my peace can be taken away by just a simple message.It feels as though the entire world turn tables against me in a single day. When i try to seek comfort anywhere, all I received from all direction is negativity, hostility and I have to defend myself on all direction.In the midst of this, I prayed, and all the message I receive from God is “Be still, I am the Lord” (Ps 46:10).
Strangely it brought a lot of comfort to me. It seem to me that it is a trial.
For on weekends where I need to serve, the amount of troubles for that week seem to decrease, just enough for me to finish my work.I wonder what’s the lesson to learn behind all these. I am still wondering and I am still looking.
But meanwhile in the midst of all these trouble, my earthly joy had indeed faded. It had been seem sometimes since I have last written on this blog. Many things had happened between my last post to now.God had finally sent me away from the first country which I was working overseas in. Now I am living in a difference place, life here is very different and I am still trying hard to adapt. In the midst of all this, there was a huge mix of joy, sadness, pain, helplessness, anxiety and unknown.It is exactly as how God told me 6 years ago.“Most assuredly, I say to you, whenyou were younger, you girded yourselfand walked where you wished; butwhen you are old, you will stretch outyour hands, and another will gird youand carry you where you do not wish.”- Jesus (Jn 21:18)In the midst of all these my little boy came into the world, he brought us much joy and much adjustment.
While we are barely trying to adjust to our new lives here and our new born. Then we received the news that the child’s great grandmother had passed away.It appears as if God allowed him to come one month early so that he could say hello to her, and God kept her alive so that she could see her great grandson before allowing her to rest in the Lord. The day before she passed we keep reminding her that one day we will all meet before the Lord. She is only going a while before us.A Christian only feel sadness in a funeral. We do not mourn in despair, we only grieve because we are temporarily separated from our loved ones. We cannot bear not being able to see them and talk to them right now.
But we know that one day, when Christ comes, we will all be gathered before him and we would be together forever.For God once told us through Paul as he wrote 1 Thessalonians“For if we believe that Jesus died androse again, even so God will bringwith Him those who sleep in Jesus.For the Lord Himself will descendfrom heaven with a shout, with thevoice of an archangel, and with thetrumpet of God. And the dead inChrist will rise first.Then we who are alive and remainshall be caught up together withthem in the clouds to meet theLord in the air. And thus we shall alwaysbe with the Lord”- Paul (1 Thess 4:14,16-17)That is how Christians ought to remember about death. While we mourn for our love ones, let us not despair, for they are safe in the homeland shore. In the arms in the Lord.That is why I would like to dedicate this hymn to my granny.
It is by Fanny Crosby and it is titled the Home Land Shore. I would always remember the little children songs she taught me to sing in Teochew, how she always patted me to sleep and taken care of me when I was a kid.I have arranged the hymn in the way that is often sung at church.
So its arrangement may differ from the original slightly.Title: Home Land ShoreLyrics: Fanny CrosbyTune: Stephen Foster (In tune of Swanee River)Far, far beyond the storms that gatherDark o’er our way.There shines the light of joy eternalBright in the realms of day,Far, far beyond rolling billowsFaith spreads her wings;Love tells us of the golden City,Hope of its glory sings. RefrainRefrain:There shall be sorrow, pain, and partingGrieve our hearts no more;Soon, soon we’ll meet beyond the river,Safe on the Homeland shore.Far, far beyond the vale and shadowLoved ones have passed;We’ll meet them in the “many mansions,”All gathered home at last.O blessed morn of joy unbounded!O glorious day!There every tear of grief and anguishJesus shall wipe away.
As it was my custom since 2010, I would specially post a hymn on the 3rd may of the year. 3rd may had always been a special day in my life.So far I have shared the following hymns– May 3rd 2010– May 3rd 2011– May 3rd 2012– May 3rd 2013– May 3rd 2014– May 3rd 2015This year as the day draw nears. I find myself singing the tune of “Hold Thou My Hand”. It is a hymn written by the famous hymn writer Fanny Crosby. Interestingly 2 of the hymns in my list were written by the same author.
“Day By Day” and “All The Way The Savior Leads me.”I did a research on this hymn but not much is said about it. Except for a quite from Fanny Crosby herself“For a number of days before I wrote this hymn,all had seemed dark to me.
That was indeed anunusual experience, for I have always beenmost cheerful; and so in my human weaknessI cried in prayer, ‘Dear Lord, hold thou my hand.’Almost at once the sweet peace that comes ofperfect assurance returned to my heart, andmy gratitude for this evidence of answeredprayer sang itself in the lines of the hymn.“ -Fanny CrosbyI believe I am experiencing the same dark usual experience just like her. When I first wrote in 2010, I was sent by God to serve in a place, and now 6 years have passed. I believe this is the last year I am staying here and God had moved me to a new place which I planned to reach by mid of July.
Interestingly, I began working in this country exactly on the mid of July 2010. It seems fairly normal that God would want me to go over there and start a new life on the mid of July 2016 (that will mean I have stayed 6 years exactly)The place I am going to is a place where I am very unsure of, But God had already told me that I have to move out a long time ago.
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Once I completed the lessons that I need to learn here, God will open the way and send me to the place he wants me to go. Indeed it is a place where I would not have expected to go, so that feeing of uneasiness is there.As I was taking the time to say goodbye to my friends here. I cant help humming the tune of this hymn now. It seems that I need the Lord to hold my hand as I begin this new phase of life.
I hope that GOd would indeed hold my hand and guide me as the day approaches. I find the verse that inspired the hymn extremely comforting for the Psalmist Asaph said“Nevertheless I am continually with You;You hold me by my right hand.You will guide me with Your counsel,And afterward receive me to glory.Whom have I in heaven but You?And there is none upon earth thatI desire besides You.My flesh and my heart fail;But God is the strength of my heartand my portion forever.” – Asaph (Ps 73:23-26I guess we all need to remember that even though our flesh and heart may fail, God will continually be the strength of our heart and our portion forever.
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