Tag Archives: hymns
FMM 4 18 2025 Will Your Anchor Hold?
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore. My father has been haunting my dreams recently. In fact, just this morning I said those exact words in my dreams. Well not exactly, I said my father has been haunting me. Because dreams […]
FMM 3 29 2024 Killing me Softly
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ~ Victor Hugo. Music has been a part of my life, probably since conception. When you grow up in the church, hymn singing is always going to be present, but in my family, we didn’t just listen to religious […]
FMM Peril On the Sea
“The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.” ~ Dean Karnazes. When you spend your childhood in the church, there are certain hymns that take you way back. When you spend your childhood in a Jamaican church, you can add the choruses of the Ira D. Sankey clothback book to that mix. If, […]
FMM 5 24 19 Brass Bands and Parenting
O Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be. ~George Matheson. I am not sure why I love the sound of a good brass band. They are a particularly English phenomenon, […]
FMM 9 5 14 Missed Opportunities
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” ~ Robert Frost Have you ever had a gut feeling, a firm intuition that you were doing the right thing at the right time? I can’t say that I have. I am not blessed with those inner certainties, that unspoken confirmation. Maybe it is that I just don’t recognize […]
FMM 08/10/12: Music hits you
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” Bob Marley There is something about the power of music that is almost supernatural. The sound of a long forgotten tune can bring back clear memories of years gone by. A song that was a big part of your formative years can evoke […]
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