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Good church service. Pastor spoke from Haggai. Then choir practice - I was the only bass to show up. Then friends and I hit the Snst Grll.
 
Seeler said:
Music was great - for children's time was sang 'This little light of mine' with the words printed in the bulletin. This is not in VU, but I remember it from VBS in my childhood. I even did the hand motions. By the end almost half of the congregation were holding up a finger to indicated the light and swaying as they sang. Not exactly how most UCC hymns are sung.
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I learned that song as a Gil Guide in the UK back in the 50's! We sometimes sang This Guiding light of mine............

What verses do UCCan people sing?
 
KayTheCurler said:
I learned that song as a Gil Guide in the UK back in the 50's! We sometimes sang This Guiding light of mine............

What verses do UCCan people sing?
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This little light of mine (hold up index finger representing a candle)
I'm going to let it shine.
This little light of mine
I'm going to let it shine.
This little light of mine
I'm going to let it shine.
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Hide it under a bushel, (cup oppossite hand over index finger)
NO, (remove hand), I'm going to let it shine.
repeat three times

Don't let anybody puff (blow on index finger)
I'm going to let it shine.
repeat three etimes

Repeat first verse, gently waving candle.

I seem to remember it having more verses when I was younger, but that is all we sang during the service.
 
Resembles a candle in the wind ... or won't hold under the trees ... thus the lights dim in GEO Gaia?

Tis just words of dark intense nature ...
 
Take my little light round the block
I'm gonna let it shine...........

Hide it under a bush, oh no
I'm gonna let it shine..........
 
Jae said:
The song was written by an American, and I have sung it in evangelical churches.
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And, yet, the lyrics aren't especially Christian save for a line here and there in later verses. "Let your light shine" is a sentiment that is as meaningful to a humanist or Buddhist as a Christian.
 
Worked well at inquisitional terminations ... set some flames a going ... doing ... and the object of attention flared ...

Got that nailed ... onyx in Hebrew is a black fastener ... perhaps only mental ... and you know how people feel about mental process ... psychic fear as paranoia?

Multi'tude ... a study on metaphor ... and numerous understandings ... can set a person in fits ... really something to observe ... perceive?
 
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Mendalla said:
And, yet, the lyrics aren't especially Christian save for a line here and there in later verses. "Let your light shine" is a sentiment that is as meaningful to a humanist or Buddhist as a Christian.
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Strictly speaking, I guess that's true. There are some New Testament references in it. Course, Christians hold no exclusive license on the NT.
 
Jae said:
Strictly speaking, I guess that's true. There are some New Testament references in it. Course, Christians hold no exclusive license on the NT.
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As I say, depends on which verses you sing. "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine", for instance, may have an NT connection (forget if it does) but since that reference isn't really explicit, it can also, for instance, easily be tied to the Buddha's "be ye lamps unto yourselves".
 
Mendalla said:
As I say, depends on which verses you sing. "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine", for instance, may have an NT connection (forget if it does) but since that reference isn't really explicit, it can also, for instance, easily be tied to the Buddha's "be ye lamps unto yourselves".
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"Ye be light of the world; a city set on an hill may not be hid; nor men tendeth a lantern, and putteth it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that it give light to all that be in the house. So shine your light before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father that is in heavens." - Matthew 5:15-16 (WYC).

:coffee:
 
Jae said:
"Ye be light of the world; a city set on an hill may not be hid; nor men tendeth a lantern, and putteth it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that it give light to all that be in the house. So shine your light before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father that is in heavens." - Matthew 5:15-16 (WYC).

:coffee:
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According to Wikipedia...

"This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel song written for children in the 1920s by Harry Dixon Loes."

Source: This Little Light of Mine - Wikipedia

...and...

"Harry Dixon Loes (1892–1965) was a well-known Christian hymn writer who wrote Blessed Redeemer and This Little Light of Mine in circa 1920 with Avis Christiansen."

Source: Harry Dixon Loes - Wikipedia
 
Jae said:
According to Wikipedia...

"This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel song written for children in the 1920s by Harry Dixon Loes."

Source: This Little Light of Mine - Wikipedia

...and...

"Harry Dixon Loes (1892–1965) was a well-known Christian hymn writer who wrote Blessed Redeemer and This Little Light of Mine in circa 1920 with Avis Christiansen."

Source: Harry Dixon Loes - Wikipedia
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And I never said it wasn't, but with minimal direct mention of God or Jesus, it lends itself nicely to other readings for some of us.
 
Even a brae ham tried to put it out ... but some devilish critter learned to light their own ... oriental dragon of philosophy?

Philosophy; the love of knowledge and wisdom ... thus those tomes were burned by who? Romantics ... who hate reason ... more fascists on the face of the Dante an masque ...
 
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