Today's Favorite Verse: Colossians 3:16
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."
I thought about all the hymns that I love and how I have learned gospel lesson through them. Such profound wisdom can be found in the hymns. I wondered on what the Savior's voice would sound like when singing. He must have sung with his apostles. I reflected on how I am trying to memorize the words to the hymns. I have found if I memorize the words that when I sing I can picture scenes around the hymns and they come to life for me. One of my favorite primary songs I loved as a child was "Tell Me the Stories of Jesus". I love it to this day. I remember hearing it again at this past April's General Conference. The Tabernacle Choir sang it right before our new prophet President Dallin H. Oaks spoke to us. The rarely heard fourth verse was sung, but with one word changed. Instead of Jesus is King, they sang Jesus in Here! That was so powerful.
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
Tell me the stories of Jesus I love to hear,
Things I would ask him to tell me if he were here.
Scenes by the wayside, tales of the sea,
Stories of Jesus, tell them to me.
Oh, let me hear how the children stood round his knee.
I shall imagine his blessings resting on me;
Words full of kindness, deeds full of grace,
All in the love-light of Jesus’ face.
Tell me, in accents of wonder, how rolled the sea,
Tossing the boat in a tempest on Galilee!
And how the Master, ready and kind,
Chided the billows and hushed the wind.
Into the city I’d follow the children’s band,
Waving a branch of the palm tree high in my hand.
One of His heralds, yes, I would sing,
Loudest hosannas, “Jesus is Here!”
Loudest hosannas, “Jesus is Here!”
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