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on hymns that acknowledge our shortcomings
Yesterday, during my regular Community of Christ congregation’s services, we sang hymn #72 from our hymnal, entitled “Gather Us In,” which the Beyond the Walls Choir has beautifully interpreted in the video below:
As we sang, I was struck by the last half of the second verse, which reads:
Gather us in, the rich and the haughty;
gather us in, the proud and the strong,
give us a heart so meek and so lowly,