A Moment of Reflection -- My 400th Post!

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As I was riding the local bus back to my hotel tonight, at 1:30 in the morning, this hymn started playing in my head. It's been a long time since I sang this song. It's always been one of my very favorites. Lyrics behind the cut.


Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Words: Robert Robinson (1758); Music: "Nettleton," (1813)
Information courtesy of The Cyber Hymnal.

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.


Also, I was randomly flipping through the hotel's copy of the Bible and it opened to Psalm 143. It really spoke to me.

School: I've updated my Planning the Family in Egypt post yet again. Notes for chapters 5 and 6 are up! In the tail end of chapter 7 right now... the end is near, there is a light at the end of the tunnel! Whee!

OK, I'm way too tired and am getting delirious here. Good night!
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