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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
GREENBELT FESTIVAL - Hope to see you there?
My song is LOVE unknown.
My Song Is Love Unknown
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My Song Is Love Unknown is a hymn by Samuel Crossman, written in 1664.
The hymn tune to which it is usually sung is Love Unknown by John Ireland (1879-1962). Ireland composed the melody over lunch one day at the suggestion of organist and fellow-composerGeoffrey Shaw.[1]
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My song is love unknown,
My Saviour’s love to me;
Love to the loveless shown,
That they might lovely be.
O who am I,
That for my sake
My Lord should take
Frail flesh and die?
He came from His blest throne
Salvation to bestow;
But men made strange, and none
The longed-for Christ would know:
But O! my Friend,
My Friend indeed,
Who at my need
His life did spend.
Sometimes they strew His way,
And His sweet praises sing;
Resounding all the day
Hosannas to their King:
Then “Crucify!”
is all their breath,
And for His death
they thirst and cry.
Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
He gave the blind their sight,
Sweet injuries!
Yet they at these
Themselves displease,
and ’gainst Him rise.
They rise and needs will have
My dear Lord made away;
A murderer they save,
The Prince of life they slay,
Yet cheerful He
to suffering goes,
That He His foes
from thence might free.
In life no house, no home,
My Lord on earth might have;
In death no friendly tomb,
But what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav'n was his home;
But mine the tomb
Wherein he lay.
Here might I stay and sing,
No story so divine;
Never was love, dear King!
Never was grief like Thine.
This is my Friend,
in Whose sweet praise
I all my days
could gladly spend.
Italic text==Other versions==
- British rock band Coldplay has a song entitled "A Message", released on the album X&Y, the lyrics and melody of which were inspired by this hymn.[2]
- Singer-songwriter Robin Mark recorded an updated version of this song, using John Ireland's setting and Crossman's first verse, with two added by Mark, on the album Revival in Belfast 2.
- American composer Edwin T. Childs set this hymn to a new tune, "Gunnar", in 1999 as an antiphonal piece for 4 part choir and congregation. [3] It is included in the hymn book Break Forth in Joyous Song.
- Singer Joanne Hogg of the Celtic Christian alternative rock group Iona set this hymn to a new tune and released it on her solo album Looking Into Light in 1999.
- Francis Pott, an English composer, set this hymn in 2002 for the Southern Cathedrals Festival as a 17'30" choral piece, performed by Tenebrae (choir), with Jeremy Filsell at the organ.
- Singer-songwriter Fernando Ortega recorded a version of this song using six of Crossman's verses with some of the phrases modernized, on his album Night of Your Return.
- Trinity Hymnal, Revised Edition Hymn 182, Great Commission Publications, composer John Baptiste Calkin (1827–1905). The melody is known as St. John.
- Quarry Street Hymnal recorded a version of this hymn on the November 2012 album Quarry Street Hymnal, Vol. 1 changing the pronouns from third to first person.[4]
- Paul Stanhope, a leading contemporary Australian composer, was inspired by elements of Samuel Crossman's text and used fragments of John Ireland's hymn in composing his Piccolo Concerto (2013).
Touching finger tips is so - so special - safe intimacy!
For many years I have been facilitating sessions with young humans and older humans.
Often so often
I have them touching finger tips.
2,000 in a hot sweaty Big Top tent
30,000 spread before a festival stage
Small groups midst social emotional spiritual learning ......
All connected by unique finger tips.
Small groups midst undressing their souls.
Fun times - group experiences - silent moments - greeting each other ...............
It was always beautiful
to walk around a festival
or a camp
or a conference
party .....................
and to be greeted
NOT with a HUG
NOT with a Handshake
BUT
with a raised finger tip to touch
Love it Love it
This is important to you - me - us all
It’s important you believe you are beautiful even if you don’t feel it.
Definitely
#YouAreBeautiful
Very few FEEL beautiful
Or can say it
About what I do - hire me - details Pip Wilson for sale!
Now taking bookings for September onwards::
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Social Emotional Spiritual Learning
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
#Primark shopper finds 'cry for help' stitched into her £10 dress
Primark shopper finds 'cry for help' stitched into her £10 dress
Primark is poised to investigate after a shopper claimed that she found a label stitched inside a dress drawing attention to exploitative work conditions.
Rebecca Gallagher, 25, claims that a £10 dress that she purchased from a Primark store in Swansea contained a label reading “forced to work exhausting hours”.
The mother said that the message was written on one of a number of stitched labels which gave Primark addresses in Spain and Ireland along with washing instructions.
“You hear all sorts of stories about people working in sweatshops abroad – it made me so guilty that I can never wear that dress again,” she told The South Wales Evening Post. Ms Gallagher claims that she attempted to call the retailing giant and was “put on hold for 15 minutes before being cut off”. She added: "I dread to think that my summer top may be made by some exhausted person toiling away for hours in some sweatshop abroad."
The Independent contacted Primark last night and is awaiting a response. But a spokesman told the South Wales Evening Post that the company intended to “investigate how the additional label became attached and whether there are issues which need to be looked into”.
It is the latest ethical setback for the retailer since theRana Plaza factory disaster in 2013, in which more than 1,000 people died in Bangladesh in a tragedy that raised questions about labourers the cut-price clothing for Primark and other Western clothing retailers.
In 2008 a six-month investigation by the BBC's Panorama found that children as young as 11 had been sub-contracted to sew beads and sequins on to Primark tops in India.
In the wake of that scandal Primark promised to redouble its efforts to end sweatshop labour, even setting up a website, Ethical Primark.
Monday, June 23, 2014
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#Pies #Pie Dome Pie Eaters #PiePhone #RugbyLeague #StHelens
Well it goes like this.
Our biggest enemy - in #RugbyLeague
THE PIE EATERS = WIGIN
Managed to knock us off the top of the Super League and after three days at the top, we have replaced them today after a magnificent win.
So this FRIDAY, at The Pie Dome, we play a big game.
The winner goes top.
It will be either Champagne or Tears at Wilson Mansions.
This Friday. !
COYS2014
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Live from #Bethlehem
Live from Bethlehem – June 19th 2014
Justin Butcher blogs from the second Bet Lahem Live Festival in Bethlehem.
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I’m sitting in a square in Bethlehem, at the top of Star Street, the beautiful Ottoman-era street which winds all the way from Manger Square to the top of the city. It’s the opening night of the second Bet Lahem Live Festival and the atmosphere is humming. Last-minute sound checks on the big open-air stage mingle with the hubbub of the gathering crowd, and the air is alive with enticing smells – kebabs and corn cobs sizzling on barbecue stands, kernels puffing into popcorn and the fragrant scent of a dozen narghile pipes drifting across the square. Up and down Star Street, all the old shop booths, deserted in recent years due to the strangling effect of the Wall on Bethlehem’s economy, have been opened up to become art galleries, music venues, cafes and creative hubs for drumming workshops, dance classes and film screenings. Lamps and lanterns glow against the beautiful blonde stone of the ancient street. Small children and grandmothers and everyone in between – Muslims, Christians and international visitors – are heading up Star Street for the opening ceremony.
It’s an interesting time to be in Bethlehem. Palestinian prisoners due for release as part of the failed peace talks are on hunger strike, Mahmoud Abbas has invited Hamas in from the cold to form an alliance with Fatah, and, last week, three Israeli teenagers disappeared, presumed kidnapped, while hitch-hiking from the settlement of Gush Etzion, provoking a massive military lock-down in the Hebron area. On Monday, The Times of Israel hoped that Sami Awad, director of Bethlehem’s Holy Land Trust, would “do the right thing and cancel the festival”. On Tuesday, my group visited Aida Refugee Camp, two hours after the IDF. A little girl showed me a tear gas canister which they’d fired and posed for a photograph.
Back on mainstage, Bethlehem’s mayor Vera Babun is opening the festival. “We are here,” she proclaims, quoting the motto of the children’s charity Caritas Bethlehem. “We are here – in our tradition, identity, history and culture and in our love. Let us hope that this Star Street, which brought the news of peace and love to the world, will bring immediate peace to Bethlehem, and all of the Holy Land.” As Sami ascends the stage, my mind goes back to the opening ceremony of Bethlehem Unwrapped last December, when we broadcast his inaugural message from Bethlehem on to our Wall installation in front of St James’s Church. Whenever I mention Bethlehem Unwrapped here, faces light up, followed by a flurry of handshakes, hugs and back-slapping. Everyone’s heard of it – and they loved it. “It was so beautiful,” they say. “It really made me happy. It made me cry.” I’m meeting this weekend with Vera Babun, Sami and others to discuss a possible follow-up concert at the real Wall, maybe with Nigel Kennedy and friends, a reprise of “The Bridge” concert at St James’s.
“The Bet Lahem Live Festival is not a party,” says Sami, “it is a message – from the city of peace and from this Holy Land, saying that the Palestinian people love life … even more, as the famous Palestinian poet Rafeef Ziadah says, “We teach life”, and on this day, we remember the Palestinian prisoners who have chosen through hunger strike to teach us life, for life is worthless without freedom. We are named Holy Land Trust because this land is holy for the three monotheistic faiths, and those who live in this land have been given a responsibility as trustees to take care of it and make it become a light of love and peace and justice to all corners and nations of the world.”
I wish all my friends from Greenbelt Festival and St James’s Piccadilly could be here tonight, to share the wonderful atmosphere as dabke dancers pour on to the stage and the crowd goes wild. Whatever tomorrow brings, tonight the streets of Bethlehem are alive with the carnival spirit of “beautiful resistance”.
Justin Butcher
Bethlehem Live Festival
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