post tour post
I realize that perhaps I’ve been sort of ‘careless’ of this new blog. You can see the date there, when was the last time I posted a note here…. February? Well.. it’s been over two months, then. This semester has been a period of little inclination to write the blog, I’d rather keep it silent inside.
However, we’re just finished with Seminary Choir Tour 2008 to Minnesota-Wisconsin-Illinois. I can’t really describe all of the great things we experienced, including a chance to visit and tutored by Dr Anton Armstrong of St Olaf Choir… well… it was a great privilege…
Well, one of the greatest blessings that I experience was actually not in St Olaf, but in Northwestern College. We had a chance to sing Vaughn Williams’ “Antiphon” together with them. Then, they sang several songs for us. I feel blessed listening to them. There is one particular song which I want to share below:
God, Thou Art Love, text by Robert Browning, music by Craig Courtney.
If I forget, yet God remembers! If these hands of mine cease from their clinging, yet the Hands Divine hold me so firmly that I cannot fall; And if sometimes I am too tired to call for Him to help me, then He reads the prayer unspoken in my heart, and lifts my care. I dare not fear, since certainly I know that I am in God’s keeping, shielded so from all that else would harm, and in the hour of stern temptation strengthened by His power. I tread no path in life to Him unknown; I lift no burden, bear no pain, alone: My soul a calm, sure hiding-place has found: The everlasting arms my life surround.
God, Thou art love! I build my faith on that. I know Thee who has kept my path, and made light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow so that it reached me like a solemn joy; It were too strange that I should doubt Thy love.
(you can listen and see them here)
