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"Hope is the hardest love we carry"
Today's subject line is from Jane Hirshfield's Hope and Love. It is one of the pieces I am currently rehearsing for this Sunday's services. The other one is a lively setting of Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers":
I've also been looking at various hymns set to "Charleston" (albeit wayyy slower than the midi at Hymnary). We sang the version that begins "There's a wideness in your mercy" (words by Frederick William Faber) at church not too long ago:
There's a wideness in your mercy like the wideness of the sea;
there's a kindness in your justice which is more than liberty.
But we make your love too narrow by false limits of our own,
and we magnify your strictness with a zeal you will not own.
For the love of God is broader than the measures of our minds
and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.
I've also been looking at various hymns set to "Charleston" (albeit wayyy slower than the midi at Hymnary). We sang the version that begins "There's a wideness in your mercy" (words by Frederick William Faber) at church not too long ago:
There's a wideness in your mercy like the wideness of the sea;
there's a kindness in your justice which is more than liberty.
But we make your love too narrow by false limits of our own,
and we magnify your strictness with a zeal you will not own.
For the love of God is broader than the measures of our minds
and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.