like liturgy, a good hymn* takes our pain joys fears and hopes and spins them into an intricate whole that guides us to deeper thoughts than we start with.
which i find more helpful than the modern practices of:
1. syncopating the beat out of Everyman's reach,
2. repeating one key phrase ad nauseum, and
3. in a tune only younger ears can follow.
every man to his poison, i suppose. give me amazing grace any day.
*sub-par hymns, of course, should be culled. these would be the simplistically irrelevant curiosities in our retired hymnals.
No comments:
Post a Comment