Tag: Gloria Patri
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Secretary of your praise
In describing how music is a gift from God, Jeremy Begbie says that music as we know it is not the sound of God, but is “the sound of the created order praising God.” Music is the gift given to creatures “for created reality to perform its true vocation in praising the Creator.”[1] George Herbert’s…
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Praise God from whom all blessings flow
In Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, there’s a moment at which the previously sickly Colin becomes freshly aware of his blossoming vitality and he can’t help calling out: “I’m well! I’m well! I feel – I feel as if I want to shout out something – something thankful, joyful!” Responding almost as impulsively as…