Dear Friends,
I have just finished writing this week’s service and, as usual, my last job was to insert the hymns into the script to go out by email. In order to save time, I use a website and copy the words of the hymns. But many of you will have noticed that sometimes the words in the script are not the same as the words that you know. That is because, down the years they have been modified, modernised, or made inclusive, and although the meanings are the same, the words are slightly different. Sometimes I don’t manage to spot the differences before going to print! Tunes too, can be different. We know and like the tunes we grew up with to particular hymns, but others grew up with something different. None of that is wrong. It is simply different.
Just at the moment we are having to accept that in all aspects of life, things will be different after Covid. And the reason for that is that every person has been changed by the experiences of the last few months. We all need to get used to a new normal, a new carefulness about the way we act and react. We will get used to it and it will become normal. We don’t like it but if we can cope, our future will be restored.
However, there is one thing that never changes, and that is the love of God for all his people, the love that gave his Son to save us from our sins. There used to be a children’s hymn that said:
Ev’rything changes, but God changes not;
The power never changes that lies in His thought:
Truth never changes, and beauty’s her dress,
And Good never changes, which those two express.
In a time of immense change, what great words to keep in our hearts.
With love and blessings,
Marion
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