Monday, September 9, 2024

Monday Meditation: Blest Be The Tie That Binds

 




"Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference,
a grievance or complaint against another, readily pardoning each other;
even as the Lord has freely forgiven you, so you must also forgive."
(Colossians 3:13)



Image courtesy Fiddle Dee Dee By Jennifer Jones



Blest be the tie that binds, 

Our hearts in Christian love:

The fellowship of kindred minds

  Is like to that above.

Before our Father's throne 

 We pour our ardent prayers;

Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, 

 Our comforts and our cares.


We share our mutual woes, 

Our mutual burdens bear,

And often for each other flows

 The sympathizing tear.


From sorrow, toil, and pain, 

And sin, we shall be free;

And perfect love and friendship reign,

 Through all eternity.



"Blest Be The Tie That Binds"
(1782)
Reverend John Fawcett
(1740-1817)
English-born Baptist minister
and hymn writer




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