🏊♀️ Swim, Stretch, Sing
Today I received a phone call from the pool, a swimming spot had been dropped and my back-up reservation was available, I got to swim today!! Woohoo!!
When I swim, I usually sing songs in my head, in general it's an A-Z list - but I can't always think of a song that begins with Q, V or X... So it's either Qumbayah for Q or I substitute other songs.
SO today when I swam, I swam laps gently and stretched often at the end of the pool. Then my mind turned to the music, rhythmically as I reached for the next swim-stroke. Here's a title or main phrase reflecting the songs that went through my mind for twenty six "there and back" laps...
Almost A-Z List of Worship Songs:
A - Amazing Grace
B - Better is One Day
C - Christ in Me
D - How Deep the Father's Love
E - Enough
F - Freely
G - Go Tell it on the Mountain
H - Holy Ground
I - Isn't He
J - Jesus
K - King of Kings
L - Lion of Judah
M - More Love, More Power
N - Near to the Heart of God
O - Once Again
P - Peace Give I to Thee
Q - Mercy is Falling :)
R - Reason to Celebrate
S - Still
T - There is a Redeemer or T - The Way that He Loves
U - Ancient of Days :) (not lots of songs that start with "U" that I can think of)
V - ... I don't remember what song I sung for V...
W - Were You There
X - Sing Hallelujah :)
Y - You are I Am :)
Z - Sing Hallelujah/You are I Am :)
Looking at this list, do some of these songs ring a bell?
Pictures, thoughts or people come to my mind with some of these songs. Some of the songs directly remind me of Darrell Duff - such as "Lion of Judah..." "Ancient of Days" makes me think of Lanah. "Still" is just a super wonderful song. "Reason to Celebrate" - I am reminded of Ray and Crown Hill. "Sing Hallelujah," brother Joe. "Peace Give I to Thee..." Barb of course. "Better is One Day" of course makes me think of my sweet husband. "Mercy is Falling" is camp of course, and I can still hear the sound of Darrell's voice singing "Jesus..." Remember that one?
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
He lived. He lived. He lived, He lived, He lived.
He died. He died. He died, He died, He died.
He arose. He arose. He arose, He arose, He arose.
Jesus. Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
We need to sing more songs like these in our Christian Churches. :)