PRAISE TO GOD

 

Praise to Thee be given

From my mouth, Oh God.

Praise for things thought common,

Praise for things quite odd,

Praise for things thought small,

Praise for some items so big.

Praise for the bundle called “all,”

The sheep, the chicken, the cow, the pig.

                – eab,11/25/06

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Raise the Praise

Increase the happiness of your days?

 

  Raise the level of Heaven-ward

praise!   

 

                                                            – eab, 3/26/09

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This Moment

What is the past – a memory,

Encased in picture and word?

What is the future – a hope,

A wish it can afford?

The present is all we have,

This moment is all we live.

Use it wisely then, to praise,

Use it to love, and to give.  –eab, 1/19/06

 

Written while pastoring in the western edge of Kingston, Ontario, a nice Canadian city.   

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Fanny Crosby – converted to Christ, Nov 20, 1850

“Praise Him! Praise Him!”   (stanza 2)

Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessèd Redeemer!
For our sins He suffered, and bled, and died.
He our Rock, our hope of eternal salvation,
Hail Him! hail Him! Jesus the Crucified.
Sound His praises! Jesus who bore our sorrows,
Love unbounded, wonderful, deep and strong.

Francis Jane Crosby wrote thousands of hymns in her later life.  She is credited with 8000.  She did not write her first one until she was 45 years of age.  This means within 50 years she wrote 8000 hymns (an average of 160 a year or about three a week.  What a writer!   

Fanny was religious as a youth but was soundly converted to Jesus at a Methodist revival at age thirty.  She said of this day,  “The Lord planted a star in my life and no cloud has ever obscured the light.”

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