That Sunday, That Summer

"If I had to choose just one day...

If I had to choose just one day

To last my whole life through

It would surely be that Sunday

The day that I met you...

Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills

Summer was a-coming in but fast

Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills

Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper,

"Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her."

 If I had to choose one moment

To live within my heart

It would be that tender moment

Recalling how we started

Darling it would be, when you smiled at me

That way, that Sunday, that summer.

Newborn whippoorwills were calling from the hills

Summer was a-coming in but fast

Lots of daffodils were showing off their skills

Nodding all together, I could almost hear them whisper

"Go on, kiss her, go on and kiss her...now.."

If I had to choose one moment

To live within my heart

It would be that tender moment

Recalling how we started

Darling it would be, when you smiled at me

That way, that Sunday, that summer.

If I had to choose just one day..."

"That Sunday, That Summer"

(1963)

Nat King Cole

Written by Joe Sherman and George David Weiss

Fourth Sunday Meditation: "O Perfect Love, All Human Thought Transcending..."

"Let marriage be held in honor, esteemed worthy,

precious, and of great price, and especially dear in all things."

Hebrews 13:4

The Covenant

(2003)

Ron DiCianni

O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,

Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,

That theirs may be the love which knows no ending

Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.

O perfect Life, be Thou their full assurance

Of tender charity and steadfast faith,

Of patient hope, and quiet, brave endurance,

With childlike trust that fears no pain or death.

Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;

Grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,

And to life's day the glorious unknown morrow

That dawns upon eternal love and life.

Amen.

The Wedding Song

(1971)

Noel Paul Stookey

"O Perfect Love All Human Thought Transcending"

(1883)

Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney

(1858-1932)

English hymn writer and poetess

Come Down Ma Evenin' Star

Beautiful American stage actress Lillian Russell was best

 known for her lovely voice and as the long time companion

and friend of the flamboyant business man Diamond Jim Brady.

"Come Down Ma Evenin' Star" from the musical, "Hokey Pokey"

is considered Lillian's signature song.

Lillian Russell
Born Helen Louise Leonard

(December 4, 1860-June 6, 1922)

When from out of the shades of night

Come the stars a-shining bright

I spy the one I do love

I recognize ma true love

Underneath the tiny orbs of light

Search the sky from east to west

She's the brightest and the best

But she's so far above me

I know she cannot love me

Still I love her and more than all the rest.

(Chorus)

Ma evenin' star, I wonder who you are

Set up so high, like a diamond in the sky

No matter what I do, I can't go up to you

So come down  from there, ma evenin' star

Come down, come down

Come down from there ma evenin star

Love, I think has made me mad

'Cause when nights and clouds are clad

I want her more than ever

Want her to leave me never

And all around you, sorrowful and sad

Then when comes the day's bright light

And ma star fades from my sight

Ma love is unabating

I grown impatient waiting

To see again ma love, ma life that night.



"Come Down My Evenin' Star"
(1902)

Lyrics by Edgar Smith and Robert B. Smith

Music by John Stromberg and WT Francis

We Hail Thee Glorious Summer

We hail thee, glorious summer,

We welcome thee today,

With all thy flowery legions

And all thy songbirds gay.

The happy rills to meet thee

With merry laughter run;

While woodland banners great thee,

Beneath a smiling sun.

Summer Birds

Greg Giordano

We hail thee, joyous summer!

We welcome thee today!

With all thy flowery legion,

And all thy songbirds gay.

We hail thy smile of gladness

O Summer fair and sweet;

O let us lay all sadness

And sighing at thy feet.

"We Hail Thee Glorious Summer"

Alice Jean Cleator

(1871-1926)

American hymn writer

Tuesday Devotional With Derek Prince: "Don't Give Up"

"Have you not known? Have you not heard?

The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the

ends of the earth, does not grow faint or weary;

there is no searching of His understanding.

Mt. Carmel, Israel

"Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice

and the wood and the stones and the dust, and also licked up the

water that was in the trench. When all the people saw it they

fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, He is God!

The Lord, His is God!"

II Kings 18:38-39

He gives power to the faint and weary,

and to him who has no might He increases

strength, causing it to multiply and making

it abound.  

Even youths shall faint and be

weary, and selected young men shall 

feebly stumble and fall exhausted.

But those who wait for the Lord, who

expect, look for, and hope in Him

shall change and renew their strength and

power; they shall lift their wings and mount up

close to God as eagles mount up to the sun;

they shall run and not grow weary, they

shall walk and not faint or become tired."

Isaiah 40:28-31

"Don't Give Up"

Derek Prince

"Three times I called upon the Lord and besought

Him about this and begged that it might depart from me;

But He said to me, My grace, My favor, and loving-kindness

and mercy is enough for you, sufficient against any danger

and enables you to bear the trouble manfully; for My

strength and power are made perfect, fulfilled and completed,

and show themselves most effective in your weakness.

Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weakness

and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ the Messiah

may rest, yes, may pitch a tent and dwell upon me!

So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure
in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities,
and distresses; for when I am weak in human strength,
then I am truly strong, able, powerful, in divine strength."

II Corinthians 12:8-10

Bunker Hill Day 2019

Samuel Adams

(1722-1803)

American statesman and patriot

"The Divine Source Of Liberty"

All temporal power is of God,

And the magistratal, His institution, laud,

To but advance creaturely happiness aubaud:

Let us then affirm the Source of Liberty.

Ever agreeable to the nature and will,

Of the Supreme and Guardian of all yet still

Employed for our rights and freedom's thrill:

Thus proves the only Source of Liberty.

Though our civil joy is surely expressed

Through hearth, and home, and church manifest,

Yet this too shall be a nation's true test:

To acknowledge the divine Source of Liberty.

"Bunker Hill"

Dan Troiani

Full Strawberry Moon Tonight

Raised are the dripping oars,

Silent the boat! the lake,

Lovely and soft as a dream,

Swims in the sheen of the moon.

-Matthew Arnold

Canoe In Moonlight

Frank Robert Harper

This month's full moon is called the Full Strawberry Moon.

The eastern Algonquin Indian tribes in America knew at the rising

of this moon the wild strawberries growing in the meadows

and woodlands would be ripe and ready for picking.

An old European name for this Moon is the Full Honey or Mead Moon,

a time when farmers and bee keepers  created mead, a fermented drink 
made with honey and other fruits and spices, or with hops.

As much as I love watching the rising of the full moon each month,

the weather forecast is calling for heavy rains and thunderstorms to come 

 rolling through my area tonight so it might be a very late viewing 

 or perhaps none at all. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

On a more cheery note, here is a classic strawberry dessert,

 so easy to make and so delicious it is guaranteed to soothe

 any disappointed moon gazers tonight!  Enjoy!

 Judy's Strawberry Pretzel Salad