’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev’d;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ’d!
Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promis’d good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call’d me here below,
Will be forever mine.
I understand. Thank you.
Larry Fletcher
Pianos Inc
Atlanta GA
Dealer/technician
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> I understand. Thank you.
I wondered why this hymn was not heard this week. So I brought here the
words, in hope that at least by reading them people will sing the hymn
in their hearts.
>I wondered why this hymn was not heard this week. So I brought here the
>words, in hope that at least by reading them people will sing the hymn
>in their hearts.
I've heard it about 200 times too many.
I've heard it several times. There was one news story on TV where it seems
that a group of people on the street stopped to look at something from the
devistation, and the song just broke out spontaneously.
I would also like to thank you for the thoughts in your several postings.
Your humanistic perspective is sorely needed.
I attended a Catholic funeral mass (not related to the tragedy) for the
father of a long time friend and colleague this morning. The priest, at the
request of the family lead the congregation in "Amazing Grace", which is a
Protestant hymn BTW, and dedicated it to the victims of the WTC tragedy.
Fred, who was 93, immigrated from Sicily in 1919 and worked in the
laundry/dry cleaning business for his whole life. The service had about 50
people in attendance, just close family and friends, of which I knew more
than half. Looking around at the folks there made me realize that the
terrorists and their religious extremist masters will never succeed in their
real goal, which is the destruction of western civilization.
In this small, unimportant (to anybody but us) gathering of regular folks,
who will never have, nor want their 15 minutes of fame, were people of at
least five (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist) different
faiths and any number of races and ethnic backgrounds there to celebrate the
life and mourn the passing of a friend and family patriarch. This is the
real strength of our culture. It doesn't always show but it is always
there. We may be a mongrel breed but we are strong because of it.
Thanks again,
Chris
PS I will listen to the Mozart Double w/Perlman & Zukerman tonight. It will
calm my soul.
"Radu Focshaner" <ra...@writeme.com> wrote in message
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>> I've heard it about 200 times too many.
>
>Have you ANYTHING useful to offer in the face of this tragedy, aside from
>your non-stop bashing of Americans and how we are dealing with this?
I haven't bashed anyone. I've said I've heard "Amazing Grace" 200
times too many. It's been playing on every TV channel I've turned to
that is covering this (pretty much all of them)
I'm sure you'd feel the same way if all your TV stations were playing
the funeral march over and over agaiin.
>I've heard it about 200 times too many.
I hope you catch some friendly fire to the back of the head....trash.
The extremists are the Moslem (Muslim) ultra conservatives who are
following the Koran to the letter, especially book 5 (Medina era).
Sura 57, injunction to fight, Sura 61, war/ speedy victory, Sura 62,
Jews denounced for ignorance, Sura 9, war is declared against Jews and
Christians until they are humbled and pay tribute. By the way, there
is no prohibition against murdering an infidel (a non Moslem).
Here's the short version, 'All the infidel needs to know about the
Koran, but is embarrased to ask.'
Tispe
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