Sunday's Hymn: Reader's Choice

It’s Even So’s turn to pick our Sunday hymn. He gave a list of his favorites that included

• Great Is Thy Faithfulness
• (Even So, my namesake) It Is Well With My Soul
• Amazing Grace
• When We All Get To Heaven

The first two have already been featured as reader’s choice hymns, so I’m choosing one of the other two. I featured Amazing Grace not too long ago during my John Newton/William Wilberforce/William Cowper phase, so I’m going with the last one on the list.

When We All Get to Heaven

Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
Sing His mercy and His grace.
In the mansions bright and blessèd
He’ll prepare for us a place.

Refrain

When we all get to Heaven,
What a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus,
We’ll sing and shout the victory!

While we walk the pilgrim pathway,
Clouds will overspread the sky;
But when traveling days are over,
Not a shadow, not a sigh.

Let us then be true and faithful,
Trusting, serving every day;
Just one glimpse of Him in glory
Will the toils of life repay.

Onward to the prize before us!
Soon His beauty we’ll behold;
Soon the pearly gates will open;
We shall tread the streets of gold. 

—-Eliza E. Hewitt (Listen.)

Other hymns, worship songs, etc. posted today:

• A Quiet Place at Above the Clouds
• Ye Ransomed Sinners, Hear at joythruChrist
• The Collect for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity at Magic Statistics
• We’ve a Story to Tell at The Happy Wonderer
• Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee at Thoughts from the Teahouse
  
• Lord’s Day 32, 2007 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Whate’er My God Ordains is Right at Seasonings of the Heart
• It is Well With My Soul at Home but not Alone
• Father of Peace and God of Love at John Dekker’s Journal

Have you posted a hymn this Sunday and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list. If you’d like to see your favorite hymn featured as a Reader’s Choice hymn, go here and leave a comment. Just tell me your favorite hymn and a little bit about why you like it and I’ll feature your hymn when your turn comes.

The Chicken Wins by a Head

…with the rabbit on the tail end.

Most of the interesting search queries in this blog’s stats still have something to do with poor old headless Mike. Queries on the subject of potty training come in a close second.

Today, the stats recorded a few queries for “peter rabbit jams and jellies.” Searching back through the other results for that search, I didn’t find any Peter Rabbit jams and jellies, but I did find Peter Rabbit’s Carrot Marmalade.

I also found out, in a Trails.com blurb about Massachusettes’ Briar Patch Conservation Area, that Thornton Burgess created Peter Rabbit.

Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer!

Beatrix Potter created Peter Rabbit. Thorton Burgess, inspired by Beatrix Potter’s animal tales, created Peter Cottontail. (A more cynical person might call it shameless copying.)

Here are a few other rabbits in children’s literature:

• Rabbit, in A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
• In addition to Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter has Benjamin Bunny, and Peter’s siblings: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail (with a hyphen).
  
• Brer Rabbit in the Uncle Remus stories.
• The Velveteen Rabbit.
• Update: Brian adds Barrington Bunny to the list.
  
• Candyinsierras reminds us of Margaret Wise Brown’s Runaway Bunny.
• Update 2: Rose contributes the Snuggle Bunny.
• Lisa J adds a few: Little Nutbrown Hare from Guess How Much I Love You
• and Hazel, Fiver, and BigWig from Watership Down.
• Update 3: We can’t forget The White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, says Missmelliflous.
  

Can you think of others?

Popular Posts from the Past: Getting Your Theology on Track

[This is yet another post from my blogging past. The day after Christmas 2005, I put this post together on the spur of the moment right before I flew off to Vancouver for a week’s holiday. During my holiday, I pretty much forgot I even had a blog, and it I was a little surprised to come back and find that there had been quite a bit of response to this post, both in the comments and on other blogs. Current events, not to mention a little summertime blogger’s block, played a part in my choosing to repost this particular post right now . ]

Generally speaking, I’m a C. S. Lewis fan. I’m willing to overlook  disagreements I have with his theology because of the clarity of his writing. There is, however, a book of his I didn’t like at all, and that’s A Grief Observed. It came highly recommended to me, and I read it twice after my husband died, but I found it much more disturbing than helpful. His wife’s death brings Lewis to a place of real despair, something I tried to understand, but just couldn’t, even though our circumstances were very similar. I couldn’t help wondering how he’d thought God worked in the world that something like his wife’s suffering and death would pull the rug out from under his faith. 

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