Monday, 02 March 2009
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Short Little Post #4
Mark did a short interview with our Pastor Sam. Check it out here. Second thing... I've been trying to sing some hymns to Judson as lullabies, ever since we came home with him. It's been helpful for me to have to memorize 5 verses each of 2 hymns so far (Of the Father's Love Begotten & Give to Our God Immortal Praise). I like it that he's hearing/sort-of-learning hymns, too.
Covenant Life Church is also memorizing some great hymns, one a month. I think I might try to jump on board with them, using their plan (or slightly tweaking it) for Judson's lullabies...
From their website:
For 10 months, we as a church family are participating in a season devoted to learning great hymns of the faith. Memorizing hymns is one of the ways we can obey Scripture’s command to “let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God” (Colossians 3:16).We’re doing this project because we want to benefit not only from the songs written in our lifetime, but also from hymns that have served the people of God for generations and will endure long after we’re gone. They are time-tested and true. They speak to every circumstance of life and point us to the wisdom, love and power of our gracious God and Savior.
Each month, we will highlight a different hymn in corporate worship and seek to learn it together by memory. We encourage you to sing these hymns with your family, your Care Group, and on your own to drive these truths deep in your heart.
If you're interested, consider a free download of their hymns, so you can be learning them, too. (They also have background info on each of the hymns, so check it out! Just click on the hymn title for more info.) I'm familiar with all of them, & could sing most of the verses if prompted, but I've found that I can't always come up with the words when I'm in a dark room with my son.
Purposefully trying to memorzie the words has proved helpful for me & I've even had some good times of worship as I'm trying to soothe my son. 
Okay... maybe this post wasn't quite so short or little.
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Comments (5)
Good info! I enjoy sing hymns and praise songs to the girls, too. Maybe it was on girltalk where I saw the idea of having a special hymn for each child that you sing every night or perhaps when they are frightened etc. Some parents "assign" them at birth as sort of a blessing they sing over their child like "Be Thou My Vision" or "Come Thou Fount."
That is one of the reasons I love the baby praise cd and dvds. I started playing them in the nursery, and the kids love to hear them. At home I just love that the kids like them and they are full of praise and worship song that we sing at church. Mia still loves when we sing ones at church that we have on her dvds. When she realizes its one she knows from it, she will whisper in my ear that it is from her baby praise video.
@Reneahm - Ava does the same thing to me! I love those videos. They are great to have playing in the background.
I enjoyed reading Mark's interview!
Cool idea with the hymns. I tried to do that with the boys. Well, sort of. Actually, we picked a hymn for each boy when he was born and sang it to him every night. Somewhere along the way it got to be too much to keep up with every night. Sometimes I wish we'd kept up with it, but then I'm still in the thick of the hectic times and realize that its just not going to happen right now. But you go, Girl! Sing that boy some solid theology!