Comments on: Let Our Ordered Lives Confess The Beauty of Thy Peace //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/02/let-our-ordered-lives-confess-the-beauty-of-thy-peace/ Faith and Family; Justice, Joy, Bread of Life Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 //wordpress.com/ By: dad //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/02/let-our-ordered-lives-confess-the-beauty-of-thy-peace/#comment-7179 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:52:17 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5072#comment-7179 Yes, I suppose those particular lines would sound a bit odd in the mouths of a church choir…

]]> By: Tim //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/02/let-our-ordered-lives-confess-the-beauty-of-thy-peace/#comment-7166 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 14:16:22 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5072#comment-7166 We sang that song in the church I grew up in, Rachel. Thanks for reminding me of its beauty. And I agree with LaVonne – those lines are best left out of the hymnal!

]]> By: LaVonne Neff //rachelmariestone.com/2014/01/02/let-our-ordered-lives-confess-the-beauty-of-thy-peace/#comment-7163 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:34:39 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=5072#comment-7163 One of my favorite hymns too, though I had no idea that it came from a longer poem called “The Brewing of Soma”! I’m kind of glad the compilers of the 1982 Hymnal left out the part about

The scourger’s keen delight of pain,
the Dervish dance, the Orphic strain,
The wild-haired Bacchant’s yell, -

The desert’s hair-grown hermit sunk
The saner brute below;
The naked Santon, haschish-drunk,
The cloister madness of the monk,
The fakir’s torture show!

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