Sing A New Old Song

Through January the Open Session Worship group is going to experiment with the idea of overflow. What would happen if we sing the same hymn every day of January? You are invited to join the experiment!

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father

There is no shadow of turning with Thee

Thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not

As Thou hast been, thou forever wilt be.

Psalm 98:1 calls us to sing a new song. The experiment we are going to try is what would happen if we sing the same hymn every day for a month. Even if we're not singing it for Sunday worship preparation. Even if we don't like singing. Even if it is awkward to sing with our teenagers (yes, you can do this individually or in groups).

This is not for the purpose of learning this great hymn, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, although that will probably be the result. It is to let a song become a "new" song each day as we tune our hearts to see God's faithfulness in each day of our lives. Every verse is rich with observations of life lived aware of God's faithfulness and I look forward to hearing your observations from having this song in mind day by day. We can know only one song and have it be new every time we sing it if it is sung in response to God and a new revelation of him.

I encourage all of us to sing this song, one time per day, out loud, by ourselves or with others, to the track video below or with our own instrument. Let me know if you have other preferred versions, tawnya@southcalgary.church

If you would like some further ways to meditate on this song I invite you to read:

Lamentations Chapter 3, the focal point is vs 22-23 but reading the whole chapter gives great context.

History of the song found here: https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-great-is-thy-faithfulness

*Original video posted did not have all verses, this updated one does.