Big daddy weave my story baritone8/28/2023 I am a retired ol’ white piano teacher and early on I developed a great ear before I could read music. These 5 notes were sung long before we had any instruments but you are right that many songs are written on these 5 tones. Yes, the black keys…the pentatonic scale. I appreciate this video, and I have forwarded it to my family so they can have the opportunity to enjoy it, as well. The particular song you focused on, the beloved “Amazing Grace”, also holds special meaning for me, as it was the song we sang at the funeral for another of my grandchildren, my son’s little boy who died of SIDS in 2005, at age four and a half months. The history of this wonderful song, and of the difference between ‘black’ and ‘white’ music, also captivated me, as someone who has studied music, enjoys it, and loves learning more about it. Your message in this discussion, emphasizing that we are all one in the Lord, is something I’ve already known, but it can’t be said enough. He has been a fine provider, and I thank God often that he and we are now in the same family. Even though he was in the process of overcoming a very troubled and difficult past when they met, he is a believer and has been leading the family in Bible study and in seeing the Lord’s hand in events taking place in their daily lives. Her new husband not only accepted her children from that first marriage as his own, ‘proposing’ to each of them individually before he asked her to be his wife, but doting on them, both in affection and in correct, Biblical discipline, in a way their biological father had been unable to do. She had previously been married to a white man who died in his late 20s. I am white and one of my daughters is married to a wonderful black man, and I have several beautiful, precious racially mixed grandchildren whom I love dearly. I entend on posting this on the wall of my house – If the mountains in your life were all smooth, you couldn’t climb over them to what God has on the other side for you. This is somthing the preacher in the clip said that I have modified a bit. Maybe someone out there is struggling and just needed to hear my testimony. I am not sure why I went through all of this. Now I have three reasons for this song to bring me to tears and into His presence. My cousin and friend was in heaven because of God’s grace – His amazing grace. God opened my eyes that he is the final judge of man and what the preacher had spoken to me was the truth. A newer version of Amazing Grace was sung at his funeral. The last few months of his life was spent seeking answers in God’s word and seeking Godly counsel. He had tragedies in his life that his mind could not handle. He was raised as I was, in a pastors home. My cousin loved God and was striving to become a better person. Then a preacher told me that in God’s great grace He looks at the state of a man’s heart and the state of his mind when something like this happens. I struggled for several days about where he was in eternity. My first cousin to whom I was close committed suicide. It has also taken on a new meaning this past week. This song always makes me cry thinking of him AND of my Savior’s grace for my unworthiness. That very night once home and snug in his bed, my daddy went on to be with his Savior : the one he had preached about for 56 years of his blessed life. I was holding my aged father’s hand and singing this song on Sunday night four years ago. May the spirit of God abide with you always keep up the good work and know that you are on the right path. My life and, I have yet to see/hear anything more spiritually stirring and uplifting than this rendition of Amazing Grace.” I knew about the writer, but, what I didn’t know about the piano keys was and will remain my ‘lesson for this day.’ Thanks be to God for this young man, his talent and the history lesson bless you young man as you blessed me and many others. “I am seven decades young have seen and heard lots of things in Looking at the young man, listening intently to what he said, I knew why the I turned He is, was and always will be, “He instructed me to look at this live picture.” After That God was and remains in charge of all our lives, so being the awsome God that Love of me, “I didn’t mean to turn on this machine today, 3/25/11.” Any rate, I know I rarely if ever look at live pictures (or whatever you call these images) and, for the Having turned on the computer today (which I don’t normally do on Saturday’s) I pride myself in learning something new every day of my life.
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