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In challenging times, music can be a source of comfort, healing, and hope. I’m curious: Which songs or hymns are you listening to lately?

Share below and I’ll put together a Spotify playlist with your suggestions!

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here's the playlist I made for our congregation: Songs of Hope for an Anxious Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY5o9mP22V0&list=PLoZWECxWCsvt4urF2lS99Pl6yZ_qWA6Hk

 

During these interesting times as the world deals with the coronavirus, I tend to focus on Psalm 46 and the familiar song that Martin Luther penned based on that psalm, A Mighty Fortress.

There are various interesting versions of that hymn on Spotify and elsewhere.

It reinforces the notion that God is in charge and that, through the coronavirus, God is at work.  Our faith will not be shaken because God is a mighty fortress who controls all of creation ... even viruses.

I find I go back to the classic, "How Great Thou Art."  Find there are few songs that say as much as that one does.  

I am amazed at how old songs are coming to my mind as I deal with the world around me.

My God and I go through the fields together, we walk and talk as good friends should and do...

Everybody ought to know, everybody ought to know, every body ought to know who Jesus is...

And Ten Thousand Reasons always calms and focuses me.

I am not my own by Jeremy Benjamin 

Amazing Grace - there are verses that calm and reassure

In Christ alone 

I Need You Oh I Need You 

 

 One song that means a lot to me is Blessed Be your Name.  I'm not sure I'd say it comforts me, because there are still times when I sing it with tears in my eyes, but it speaks to my experience with schizophrenia.  Like Lamentations it's a song that I can relate to.  I also like Ancient Words, Sing, Choirs of New Jerusalem ( grey hymnal) and other songs that don't come to mind right now.

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