When the going gets tough there’s nothing like an hour of rollicking hymn singing

On Saturday my boy had a mini-stroke at home, aged only 26. ‘You’ll have to give up smoking and do a spot of exercising now and again,’ I told him as the ambulance drove away. Smoking is his solace and consolation. ‘Out of the question,’ he said. On Sunday morning I went to church.

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TaggedCanon Michael Saward, Church, hymn, Mini-stroke, Stand Up for Jesus’, stand-up, The Battle Hymn of the Republic’, ‘And Can It Be That I Should Gain?’, ‘Christ Triumphant’, ‘How Great Thou Art’

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When the going gets tough there’s nothing like an hour of rollicking hymn singing

My heart melts every time I sing the soaring chorus of ‘How Great Thou Art’

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