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<\/a>This year I also played around with creating a pretty menu to place on my fridge\u2026it\u2019s usually my hand scribbled notes and I cross off the items I have completed. But I wanted something a bit more special this year. Take a look at the pics\u2026which do you prefer?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s my one dilemma about Thanksgiving. There isn\u2019t much music that is attached to the day. \u201cOver the River and Through the Wood\u201d is definitely one to use on this day, but there aren\u2019t many recordings of this tune.<\/p>\n
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There are a few hymns that speak to Thanksgiving, but really not enough to even make an album. I wonder why this holiday isn\u2019t as musically decorated as some of the others.<\/p>\n
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Maybe it\u2019s because our hearts and thoughts are to be elsewhere. We are to be thanking God for all that He has done for us and for what He\u2019s done in our lives. This is a day for our gratitude to create the music for us.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n The songwriter is thankful for the gifts from above and desires to sing praise to God with his music. But then he asks for God\u2019s work upon his life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He asks for his heart to be in tune with God\u2019s grace. He asks to be taught the music from above. He asks for God\u2019s guidance and safety through travel. He asks that his heart be bound to God. He asks that God would take his heart and seal it. These are such wonderful words. All words and prayers that we can ask for ourselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The one section of this song that is probably most confusing is in the second verse. \u201cHere I raise my Ebenezer.\u201d What does that mean?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This idea is taken from 1 Samuel 7:12 (NIV). \u201cThen Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, \u2018Thus far has the Lord helped us.\u2019\u201d <\/i>The word Ebenezer means \u201cstone of help.\u201d The author of this hymn raised his stone of help to God. He asked God to help him through each situation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What a picture we see in these few words. Perhaps we need our own stone to raise when we need help. Of course, we could certainly just ask, but by raising a stone, we are doing something. We are reminded of something. We become engaged in the act of asking. I believe I will find my own stone and name it Ebenezer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You\u2019ll find the words to \u201cCome Thou Fount\u201d below and a link to listen to the updated version. I pray you will find this hymn will lead you to a life of thanksgiving.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Here I raise my Ebenezer; God of glory, voice of thunder O to grace how great a debtor <\/p>\n If you\u2019d like to hear this version of this song, you can click here <\/a>to listen to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I pray that you will have a blessed day and that you will be thankful for all that God has given.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grace and peace be yours in abundance,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Donna<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To leave a comment, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n [i]<\/a> \u201cCome Thou Fount,\u201d Robert Robinson, 1758, Chorus addition, Zach Williams, Arrangement, Nick Duke\/Adam Sams, from Your Love for Me<\/a>, released 15 March 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are into the week of Thanksgiving now. It\u2019s one of my favorite weeks of the year for several reasons. I love to cook and this is the week I shine. I create a menu, make a shopping list, purchase the goodies, clean my house top to bottom, put up some Christmas decorations, set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,246,25,19],"tags":[1447,1446,1316,1445],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glorifying-god","category-honoring-god","category-praising-god","category-thanking-god","tag-1-samuel-712","tag-praising-god-for-his-blessings","tag-thanksgiving","tag-come-thou-fount-glory-of-god-monday-musical-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>I did choose one hymn that\u2019s been re-made to share today. \u201cCome Thou Fount\u201d was written in 1758 and it is a hymn with an abundance of things to be thankful for. Grace, mercy, redeeming love, help, good pleasure, safety, rescue, and goodness.<\/p>\n
\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace;
\nStreams of mercy, never ceasing,
\nCall for songs of loudest praise.
\nTeach me some melodious sonnet,
\nSung by flaming tongues above.
\nPraise the mount! I\u2019m fixed upon it,
\nMount of Thy redeeming love.<\/p>\n
\nHere by Thy great help I\u2019ve come;
\nAnd I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
\nSafely to arrive at home.
\nJesus sought me when a stranger,
\nWandering from the fold of God;
\nHe, to rescue me from danger,
\nInterposed His precious blood;<\/p>\n
\nSplit the cedars, bring us under
\nOh the shadows of your wings
\nYou give us strength
\nYou give us peace<\/p>\n
\nDaily I\u2019m constrained to be!
\nLet Thy goodness, like a fetter,
\nBind my wandering heart to Thee.
\nProne to wander, Lord, I feel it,
\nProne to leave the God I love;
\nHere\u2019s my heart, O take and seal it,
\nSeal it for Thy courts above.[i]<\/a><\/p>\n
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