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Related: About this forumThe Chamber Choir I sing in is singing this song
which our director introduced to as as a song that is so great because it applies to everyone:
The House of Faith Has Many Rooms
The house of faith has many rooms
where we have never been;
there is more space within God's scope
than we have ever seen.
We dare not limit God's domain
to what our creeds declare,
or shrink from probing things unknown
lest God should not be there,
The way to God is not escape,
though truth does make us free:
the life of chosen servanthood
is perfect liberty.
Yet still we seek at journey's end
the last and sweetest grace:
the gift of room to turn around
and know God face to face.
Carl P. Daw, Jr.
Words © 1990 Hope Publishing Company
The house of faith has many rooms
where we have never been;
there is more space within God's scope
than we have ever seen.
We dare not limit God's domain
to what our creeds declare,
or shrink from probing things unknown
lest God should not be there,
The way to God is not escape,
though truth does make us free:
the life of chosen servanthood
is perfect liberty.
Yet still we seek at journey's end
the last and sweetest grace:
the gift of room to turn around
and know God face to face.
Carl P. Daw, Jr.
Words © 1990 Hope Publishing Company
So my thoughts are:
1. yeah, bullshit it applies to everyone.
2. I have been singing this song for 2 months and I have no fucking idea what possible positive interpretation there is to the part I bolded.
And for the lurking nannies that are already shaking their head at my evil atheist attitude, we are singing Sing Unto God and that song kicks ass.
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The Chamber Choir I sing in is singing this song (Original Post)
Goblinmonger
Oct 2012
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dimbear
(6,271 posts)1. Freedom is slavery.
My friend George used to say that all the time before they locked him up, in 1984.
DavidL
(384 posts)2. Singing music is fun! I've sung a few
religious songs in my day, and enjoyed the singing.
I've also sung "Here comes Santa Claus". Just saying.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)3. Faith would like to know....
.... if anyone knows a good cleaning service. All those rooms are too much for her to keep clean and her house is becoming a filthy mess!
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)4. I will now be singing that interpretation
from this point forward. Concert is on Saturday so we're in the short run.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)5. I enjoyed that. Good job !
