It’s Amazing

Tonight I’m feeling my roots as I listen to Alan Jackson’s “Precious Memories” album on my iPod. Yesterday evening it shuffled to one of the songs, and I enjoed it so much that I decided to listen to the entire album. Then I decided to listen to an entire playist I have of just hymns.

I love those old “timey” hymns that you can find in a worn and battered copy of “Heavenly Highways.” They have so much feeling and ring true in a way that I don’t believe that a great deal of today’s modern worship songs can even attempt. How many services have I sat through as chorus after chorus of a worship song is repeated, long after people have stopped walking the aisle or even praying? I don’t feel that way about the old hymns. I feel connected to generations of believers before me and possibly the Heavenly Hosts singing “Standing on the Promises” with me.

When I especially hear the wonderful hymns of “How Great Thou Art,” “Holy, Holy, Holy,” and of course “Amazing Grace” the timelessness of God in three persons all around me. I can be where I am and yet I can still be that young girl at a Fifth Sunday Singing at church with the yellowed lights shining down on me as I sit on the velvet cushions of the pews. I can almost even hear the trains that always came down the tracks in Heavener. It’s an amazig experience, and I would forsake it for nothing.

I suppose some would probably see this as laughable, but nothing can ever strip me of that “Blessed Assurance.”

Currently listening : Amazing Grace: Music Inspired by the Motion Picture By Chris Tomlin