Sunday Drive: Be Still, My Soul (Finlandia)

Police state?  Evil empire?  Amerika?  Or just a horrible dream?

My heart is heavy with grief at all that is happening in our country and being done by our country in other lands. We have come to the darkest chapter in our national history - and I fear that things will get very much worse before they get better. I am too old and weary to make a difference; all I can do is offer a song of hope and inspiration - a little candle in a deepening night.

David Archuleta sings the well-known hymn to the tune of Finlandia by Sibelius. There are other, secular lyrics which do not come to hand at the moment.

God help us all.

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Sunday Drive: This Is My Song (Finlandia)

The poignant hymn, most apropos today, as performed by British octet Voces8:

 

Lyrics from the YouTube summary: 

Verses 1&2 by Lloyd Stone, v.3 Blake Morgan, Voces 8 tenor  

This is my song, O God of all the nations, 

A song of peace for lands afar and mine. 

This is my home, the country where my heart is, 

Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine. 

But other hearts in other lands are beating, 

With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine. 

My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean, 

And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine. 

But other lands have sunlight too, and clover, 

And skies are everywhere as blue as mine. 

*This is my song, O God of all the nations, 

A song of peace for their land and for mine. 

So let us raise this melody together, 

Beneath the stars that guide us through the night; 

If we choose love, each storm we’ll learn to weather, 

Until true peace and harmony we find, 

This is our song, a hymn we raise together; 

A dream of peace, uniting humankind. 

*modified from Stone’s original poetry 

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Sunday Drive: Be Still, My Soul

As performed by David Archuleta; the tune is Finlandia, by Sibelius.

Sunday Drive: Finlandia