Do you know how old Noah was when the flood began?
600
Do you know how many new blogs are published every minute?
600
Do you know which birthday for Joan of Arc we are celebrating this year?
600
Do you know how many years ago the University of St Andrew in Scotland began?
600
Do you have any idea how many blog posts I have written here since the beginning?
600
Fun trivia today to celebrate this 600th post.
I feel blessed: Blessed by God to have the opportunity to write for Him and blessed by all of you who read these humble words each time. I am so very grateful. Thank you for reading this blog!!
The most popular posts the past three years based on one the number of times people looked at that page are the ones about prayer, inspirational quotes, and hymn stories. Prayer is so essential to our growing closer to God and so many of us hunger for hope and encouragement we find in quotes and music.
Since prayer, hymns, and quotes are key themes here, I thought I would share the words of one of my favorite hymns. Often I speak the lyrics of hymns as prayers: a powerful way to hear familiar words in a new way.
We sang this hymn in church last Sunday. I couldn’t open the hymnal since I was cuddling a sleeping one year old grandson (doesn’t get much better than that!!). But I knew every word to this old song and just closed my eyes and worshipped with its melody and words.
Perhaps that is why we blog because we love to tell the Story:
I love to tell the story of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his glory, of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story, because I know ’tis true;
It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do.
I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory,
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story; more wonderful it seems
Than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams.
I love to tell the story, it did so much for me;
And that is just the reason I tell it now to thee.
I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory,
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story; ’tis pleasant to repeat
What seems, each time I tell it, more wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story, for some have never heard
The message of salvation from God’s own holy Word.
I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory,
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
I love to tell the story, for those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory, I sing the new, new song,
‘Twill be the old, old story that I have loved so long.
I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory,
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
What is one of your favorite hymns?