Membership

末日聖徒イエス・キリスト教会の信者のただのもう一人で、個人的に意見を風に当てつつです。
I am just another member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints airing my personal opinions.
This "hands-on" is in the form of what we call a personal testimony.
この「ハンズオン」は、個人の証という形に作って行きます。

My personal ideas and interpretations.
個人の発想と解釈です。

I hope it's useful. If not, I hope you'll forgive me for wasting your time.
お役立つ物ならば、うれしく存じます。そうでなければ、あなたの時間を無駄に費やしてもらってしまって、申し訳ございません。

Above all, don't take my word for the things I write. Look the scriptures up yourself. Your opinion of them is far more important to you than mine.
何よりもここに書いているものそのままだと思わないでください。参考の聖句を是非調べて読んでください。私の意見よりはあなたに対して価値があるのはあなたの意見です。

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

I Am a Child of God -- Missing Verse

Song #2 in the English Children's Songbook, where it has four verses.

Hymn # 301 in the English Hymnal, where it has only the first three verses.

 In neither case does it directly mention Jesus Christ.

I suppose I may be demanding too much perfection, but it seems to me that it is therefore missing a verse.

So, I propose an additional verse, to be sung after either verse two or verse three. It should go something like this:
I am a child of God,
And Jesus is my brother.
Because He lived and died for me
I can return to Mother.
But there are some rhythm problems. Worse, there are some  interpretational issues.

First, He lived and died, and He lives again. That He resurrected brings the hope of the resurrection to us, as well.

Children and people with less complete understanding of the news Jesus brings us may not be aware that He lives again, so we should say that, if we talk about His living and dying for us.

Second, while those who are well-versed in the true doctrines will recognize that returning to Heavenly Mother implies returning to Heavenly Father, Children and those new to the principles of the Gospel will not recognize that. Again, we need to be explicit:
I am a child of God,
And Jesus is my brother.
Because He lived and died, and lives again for me,
I can return to Heavenly Father and Mother.
And now the rhythm is completely off.

2 comments:

  1. Hmmm. Maybe it needs two more verses....I am not good at that type of thing, but....
    Or maybe this is a whole nuther song....can't decide, but I do know I love verse 4. Why is that one not in the hymnal?

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  2. Yeah.

    Hard to get perfection in this world, but we can still think about it a bit.

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