June 15, 2010 8:45 AM
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
In The Mommy Manual, I suggest choosing a hymn that becomes your family signature. The one you sing at the close of every family worship. The one your children will use at their weddings.
This is ours:
Come, Thou Fount of Every BlessingCome, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I've come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Here are three vastly different interpretations:
Traditional with awesome choir and orchestra:
Rock with Dave Crowder Band:
Beautifully simple, thoughtful Sufjan Stevens (my kids turned me onto him). This video is inexplicably backed by African animal scenes, but I wanted you to hear S ufjan's version:
What's funny is that we chose our hymn in 1990, long before anyone - that I know of - gave it a different kind of spin. And way long before YouTube.
If you have a favorite family hymn, check it out at YouTube to see what you come up with.
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Comments
Sufjan Stevens, AKA Cat Stevens. Haven't heard him in years!
Posted by: Mary Eckstein | June 15, 2010 11:32 AM
Sufjan Stevens is Cat Stevens' son :)
Posted by: Barbara | June 15, 2010 12:26 PM
I love the traditional choir and orchestra...beautiful!
On another topic...are you beginning the book study today on "Diary of a Country Priest"?
Posted by: Barb | June 15, 2010 4:46 PM
Sufjan Stevens is not related to Cat Stevens, like the previous commenters suggested.
BUT I do love his version of Come Thou Fount. I'm researching the hymn right now for use in my wedding next month.
Posted by: jamie | March 25, 2011 1:31 PM
