Song What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him
Just delivered to our door is the latest Lutheran Forum mag, dated Pentecost/Summertime 2008, and my hymn, equally promised, is included. Nether the new editorship of Sarah Hinlicky Wilson they've appointed a Hymn Editor, Sally Messner, who has taken on the worthy projection of printing a new hymn each issue. I sent in two hymns for consideration, and they chose O Lord, Our Lord, Your Fantabulous Name, for which I wrote the text, based on Psalm eight, as well equally music.
Although I enjoy writing prose and setting poetry, I have not written much original verse considering, well, it'south hard. Really, really difficult. This leaves bated the question of whether I possess a gift for it, a question I have no more hope of answering than the question of whether I take a gift for composition. Well, someone else tin have a crack at answering that.
I do recall that when I decided to focus just on composing information technology was because I'd rather do ane thing well than a couple of things (including playing the bass guitar) just competently, resting in the promise, of course, that I could one day etch well. At least, the corporeality of fourth dimension I would need to invest to get actually good at verse or my Fender Jazz Bass I realized I'd rather spend composing. Real poets and real bass players take my unalloyed respect. Nevertheless, every once in a while I try my hand at it. Poetry, that is; I sold the bass.
Click on the hymn for a total-size copy; below is a midi version:
Writing texts and music for hymns carries with it the challenges peculiar to verse and composition, just also the additional challenge of firsthand functionality. The materials cannot be involved or obscure; the artist cannot stray as well far ahead or the congregation simply will non follow. But if the materials are besides common, the worshipers go nowhere, their attention dulled past platitude. This is a delicate dance, the stretching and the comforting. I find, increasingly, that it intrigues me. Information technology's all the same hard—actually, really difficult—but information technology intrigues me.
This is Psalm viii:
O LORD our Lord, how fantabulous is thy name in all the earth! who hast gear up thy celebrity to a higher place the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast grand ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is human being, that thousand fine art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For yard hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the world!
and the hymn text:
1. O Lord, our Lord, your excellent name
Fills heaven and earth with a glorious sound.
Each new-sprung vocalisation now leads the acclaim
Of grateful hosannas for mercies profound.
2. O Lord, our Lord, with wonder we gaze
On all y'all take fashioned, the heavenly span
Of moon and stars, cosmos's displays.
Nosotros ponder our presence in your shining program.
iii. O Lord, our Lord, around nosotros discern
The beloved reminders of visited dear.
Beneath the angels, we humbly learn
The wise obligation for gifts from above.
4. O Lord, our Lord, your excellent name
With all living creatures our voices resound.
All earth, all oceans join the acclaim:
Our Lord still is with us! Our thank you volition abound!
Source: https://kilesmith.com/2008/06/10/a-hymn-on-psalm-8/
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