My Daily Newspaper

 My Guardian:  This must be my favourite song at present  

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'You go before me, my Guardian' by Ben Cantelon #Guardian. We sing it a lot @CCWoking. You can hear it/ watch it on YouTube http://t.co/jnU9V5K5

King of love and grace
My Guardian
All my hopes and fears
Are in Your hands
I'm in Your hands

Where You go I'll go
Show me the way
Every step I take
Be now my guide
God on my side

You go before me
You're there beside me
And if I wander
Love will find me

Goodness and mercy
Will always follow
You go before me
My Guardian

When I hear You say
Trust in the way
I will walk by faith
And not by sight
God of my life

So let Your kingdom come
Your will be done
All Your promises will stand forever
You're my defender

You go before me
You're there beside me
And if I wander
Love will find me

Goodness and mercy
Will always follow
You go before me
My Guardian

You are God
Our Great defender
Strong in love
Forever faithful
We are Yours
And we will trust in You
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You go before me
You're there beside me
And if I wander
Love will find me
Goodness and mercy
Will always follow
You go before me
My Guardian

My Guardian

Wandering4theloveofGod

I wanted to change the words a bit - in fact I do sing the chorus slightly differently. The song implies there is something wrong with wandering. I suppose it is talking about wandering astray. But I do it (wander I mean) all the time. As you can see, my blog is called wandering4theloveofGod. 'Peregrinate pro Dei Amore'.   To me 'wandering is a good thing, it is part of our pilgrimage and involves being attentive to the winds of the spirit guiding us.

So I now sing:

You go before me
You're there beside me
And when I wander
Love will guide me 

Goodness and mercy
Will always follow
You go before me
My Guardian

I mentioned to a friend that this song is like me, left of centre and couldn't imagine an equivalent 'My Telegraph'. So during the service at the back of church (which is a very creative space!) he wrote the following:

My Lord, my God,
You hear my prayer
You listen to what I have to say
And in the silence     
When I'm listening                           
You speak to me
We talk both ways
My Telegraph 

 

Now I'm thinking of maybe a whole series on My Newspaper........   

In fact I seem to remember a conference I went to (Spring Harvest?) organising different streams based on Newspaper titles.

So how about 'my Mirror' (I Cor 13:12 or James 1:23?), 'my Sun' (of Righteousness? Mal 4:2)  'my Daily Mail' ( a bit like Daily bread readings), 'my Times' (1 Chron 12:32?), 'my Independent' (I Cor 11:11??) 

Any poetic contributions welcome.... 

Francisco d'Andrade, Reading a Newspaper