The praise songs wear out really fast, as they are the same four lines over and over. You can't even add good music to them... just chords... bam bam bam bam....
We had a song leader many years ago who loved the old hymn O I Want to See Him. So we sang it every single service - Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night Bible Study and Friday night youth Service - for over a year solid!!! Seriously!!
For a long, long time, I could not stomach that song. Now (20 years later) when we sing it occasionally (thank the Lord it's ONLY occasionally) I never think about the Lord. My mind immediately drifts off to the person who loved that song so much he made us sing it to death.
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AS I JOURNEY THROUGH THE LAND, SINGING AS I GO......
As you can see it was impressed on my memory too!!!!
On I Am a Friend of God in particular, I heard that totally ripped to shreds by people's opinions of it and how much they disliked it on forums in the past kinda when it first started catching on I guess, and that jaded me to it ever since, everytime I hear it I cringe and think about everybody talking about how much they couldn't stand it. lol
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AS I JOURNEY THROUGH THE LAND, SINGING AS I GO......
As you can see it was impressed on my memory too!!!!
Shortly followed by page 86 - Heaven's Jubilee! (Or page 174, Just A Little Talk With Jesus) ...is that 172?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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