This Is My Father’s World
When I was a kid our family vacationed at a YMCA camp in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of northern Minnesota. There I learned how to handle a canoe and pitch a tent. And there I learned to love singing Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Bedtime Songs
Let The Joy Overflow
Joy is defined different ways. Paul’s letter to the Galatians lists it as a “fruit of the spirit”. One dictionary definition is “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.” God and joy are not strangers to each other, and I Continue Reading →
Jesus Loves Me
Classic song, timeless encouragement. Enjoy the song then we’ll talk some more. Who sings these kid’s songs? For a century and a half children around the world have been singing these simple but deep words. Is it only a children’s Continue Reading →
God Will Take Care Of You
This encouraging song is one of many written by a person who overcame a noteworthy personal physical limit and, among other things, developed a wonderful capacity and platform to encourage others in the Lord. Please give her song a sing-along Continue Reading →
My Savior How I Love You
Here is another song by Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr. He was born a few years before the Civil War and lived just past the end of WW I. Hymnary.org reports “His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted Continue Reading →
Dakota Hymn
Our song writer, Joseph Renville, was born in 1779 in a small village near the east bank of the Mississippi River in a place now called St. Paul, Minnesota, only four miles from where I was born 175 years later. Continue Reading →
Close To My Door
This old hymn uses lovely imagery to describe a close walk with our living Lord. Please give it a sing-along listen and come back for a chat on kindness and on practicing the presence of God. “♫♪ How kind … Continue Reading →
Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
Jesus said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” All of us — whether we are getting to know Jesus for the first time or have greeted him 30,000 mornings Continue Reading →
My Jesus I Love Thee
This is a fine old gospel song, very much worth knowing because it gives back to us every time we sing it. This song is a wonderful treasure we can “have to give to him that needs”. Please give it Continue Reading →
Near To The Heart Of God
This peaceful song was written in 1903, the same year the Wright Brothers made aviation history at Kitty Hawk, but remained relatively unpublished for its first thirty years. Around the early 1930’s its reach grew, and by now it has Continue Reading →