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Having nailed the third practice round of our bell choir music for reflection at church today I miss counted after turning the second page and like kids attempting to hop into a moving double dutch jump rope I muffed a number of attempts to find my place for about ten measures of music. It was another occasion to accept the importance of humility.
Another reminder was the opening hymn the congregation sang. As I searched the hymnal page to see which well known composer had inspired the lyrics by a John Newton I saw it was Austrian composer Hayden. As I read further the hymnal noted honestly that melody born in 1775 in the second year of our American Revolution was infamously appropriated by the Nazis for the purpose of propaganda and nationalism. I drew my grandson’s notice to the footnote. Unlike Donald Trump and his followers who want America to sleep through our nation’s darker corners and ignore Christianity’s call to acknowledge sin, I thought my Grandson could handle this.
and given lyrics in 1779 was based on the text from Isaiah 33:20-21
Here are the lyrics in the First Verse:
Glorious things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God.
He whose Word cannot be broken
formed thee for His own abode.
On the Rock of Ages founded,
what can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation’s walls surrounded,
thou may’st smile at all thy foes.
And if you can’t recall the melody this site full of hymns provides it. https://my.hymnary.org/song/172/glorious_things_of_thee_are_spoken?instrument=full&capo=None&
If memory serves it was a long standing German Anthem predating Hitler beginning with the familiar words Deutschland, Deutschland Liberalis…….
Accompanying me to church was the Washington Post headline about Donald Trump returning to his villainous dream to turn the ruined Gaza Strip into a new Rivera and his apparently revived Fascist intention to drive the Jews out of the Fatherland….OOPS!!! I mean Palestinians.
As for his followers who resent Liberals attempt to make them feel guilty they are still claiming that there is no starvation in Gaza
My latest suggestion for what MAGA really stands for it Making God Abhor America. I should make a new lawnsign like my Trump Exploits the Undocumented. I have it in my front and back yard. At least two have been removed (stolen?) but I ordered 20 of them and have been replacing them.
Under the more accurate accronymn I’d probably put three images. The Immigrant being arrested by masked police, Musk and his fascist salute and one of the Big Brother, Stalin imitating posters of his Face draped over a Federal building like a Nazi flag.
Javold Mein Fuhrer!
