Each Sunday, our church hour begins with beautiful organ music, then we sing hymns. Some are old, some new. Some bring joy and others bring memories and tears of days gone by.
On Saturday evenings, I often watch Public TV. One Saturday, I happened upon a Lawrence Welk Precious Memory Program. The music was beautifully done with many hymns that I could sing along. One musician mentioned a saying that he had seen in a church he had visited. That saying was, “He Who Sings Prays Twice”.
I went to bed that evening thinking about and humming
hymns. Waking in the morning, I decided
to try an entire day of deliberate singing. In the shower, I sang “Morning Has Broken”.
Fixing my usual unorthodox breakfast, I sang “Just as I Am”. Going out of doors to tend to weeds in one of my flower beds, I broke into “In The Garden”. Moving on to another bed, I sang, “This Is My Father’s World”. Picking up the litter I had caused, I put it in my extra garbage can and pulled it into my garage. During that job, I hummed a hymn from my teenage years, “Are You Able”.
That song made me travel back in time to my home in the Missouri woods, and a small church near my home. So, I sang, “Little Brown Church”.
The day ended with a full heart, a few tears, and a feeling of having prayed all day. On that TV program, they concluded with these words which I echo. May All Who Come Behind Us Find Us Faithful.
Carolyn Olsen
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