My New Year's pledge is in the form of a song, "I Bind My Heart This Tide," text by Lauchlan M. Watt, "A Book of the Soul," 1907, alt. Music: J. Randall Zercher, 1965, The Mennonite Hymnal," 1965. Tune: UNION
1. I bind my heart this tide to the Galilean's side,
to the wounds of Calvary, to the Christ who died for me.
2. I bind my soul this day to the neighbor far away,
and the stranger near at hand, in this town, and in this land.
3. I bind my heart in thrall to the God, the Lord of all,
to the God, the poor one's friend, and the Christ whom he did send.
4. I bind myself to peace, to make strife and envy cease.
God, knit thou sure the cord of my thralldom to my Lord. Amen.
Note: "thrall, thralldom" refer to service, serving.
Pilgrim on the way
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I remember this hymn from the Mennonite hymnal we used at Pleasant Valley. I hadn't thought of it in many years but I remember the tune-written in D minor.
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