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Shakesthegrounds Rumblings
Ellemeno:
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--- Quote from: Shakestheground on October 04, 2007, 09:45:24 am ---IN THE GARDEN
Words & Music: C. Austin Miles, 1868-1946
I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
Refrain
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He speaks, and the sound of His voice,
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing.
Refrain
I?d stay in the garden with Him
Though the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go; through the voice of woe
His voice to me is calling.
Refrain
Now I have checked out C. Austin Miles, he has living descendants, so he was not an old bachelor living in a an apartment over a butcher in Philly. But the words, read them with an open mind, what love he has. How many men have sang them on sunday, standing next to their wives and families, concentrating on Jesus, and blocking out whoever it is they are trying not to remember.
Or maybe it is my over active imagination, wanting to rewrite history and make everthing a little bent. What do you think?
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Yes, I think everything IS a little bent.
Elvis:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4YqAs40E2o[/youtube]
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 04, 2007, 10:12:18 am ---That was my mother's favorite hymn. :'( Mother was raised in a small denomination that became a part of the current United Methodist Church. She always said she wanted it "sung" at her funeral. When she died very unexectedly, our Lutheran pastor dug it out of the Methodist hymnal, but when he asked about singing it, I didn't think my dad and I could stand that without falling apart, so we just had the pastor read the lyrics from the pulpit. Just plain gutless, I guess. ...
Sorry, Mother. ... :'(
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Jeff, if I know you adored and revered your mother, she surely knows it too. :-*
Ellemeno:
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http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/opinions/letters.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2007-10-11-0008.html
Proud of you, Tru. :-*
Ellemeno:
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--- Quote from: Shakestheground on October 17, 2007, 03:23:07 pm ---You know that is an idea, Chuck, have you ever heard of the Radical Fairies?
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Truman, when I was living in community, I met some wonderful people from Short Mountain Sanctuary in Tennessee. Have you heard of them?
http://directory.ic.org/records/?action=view&page=view&record_id=1068
(I enjoyed this way of spending an evening. All caught up now. Took me off and on for four effin years hours.) :)
My last thought for the night here - make it an All Boy Weekend. I do All Girl things. It's different, and good.
Kelda:
You can't keep up either!?! heh. the boys are doing a Lashawn - talking a blioe streak.
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