Amazing Grace!!!

 

“Was-blind - - - but … now I-see!”

I sat in a pew by an open-window in the century

and a-half old church constructed of limestone and

sandstone quarried-blocks; I love the tall-steeple of

standing-rib metal-roofing and the gold-cross a top it.

 

It is August - - - plenty hot at mid-day … no-air conditioning!

 

Our children are completing “Summer Sunday-School”

and have a program for parents and relatives. Beautiful!

 

The collective-of-“cherubs” voice in-song a-hymn I

have not heard before: “Amazing Grace”! Indeed!

 

Tears-well in my-eyes at the simple-reverence of-prayer!

 

Even-I, not-blessed with a-virtuoso singing-voice can

carry this-tune as its simple-lyrics flow the-notes in-Praise!

Honor!  and Glory! to God! The Spirit-“stirring” brings-tears

as I write these words some-forty years after the-event.

 

Across the parking-lot of this lovely-little country-church

stands an emerald-green cornfield in the August-hellion

and I-am Proud! to-be-a-simple Country-boy Christian!

 

Amazing-Grace! My favorite-hymn!

 

Amen!