{"id":13024,"date":"2017-02-08T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=13024"},"modified":"2017-02-08T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:24:40","slug":"worship-wednesday-all-these-babies-raising-up-worshippers-lullabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=13024","title":{"rendered":"Worship Wednesday – All These Babies – Raising Up Worshippers – Lullabies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"IMG_0065\"<\/a>[From the Archives – as we seem surrounded by beautiful pregnant women and so many darling little babies – sweet times.]<\/p>\n

My family, growing up, was not in church until I was 6 years old. Any awareness of spiritual songs began then for me. The Baptist Hymnal of my childhood was my worship textbook in those days. Then came the Christian Contemporary Music worship movement of the 1970s. When our children were born in the \u201980s, there were songs deep in my heart that would become heartsongs for our three little\u00a0ones as well. The main reason is that they would fall asleep to them at night, as we sang them during that wind-down time before lights-out.<\/p>\n

My husband and I wanted to be the kind of parents who had family devotions faithfully [\u201cBible before breakfast\u201d sort of thing], but that turned out to be more challenging than we thought it would be. He and I both had our own quiet times with the Lord, but adding people (especially little people) to that mix was a discipline that eluded us for most of the years of our children\u2019s growing up. We had Bible teaching in our home and prayer bathed our routines, but that family devotion habit…sigh…now, we encourage our parenting children to better us in this area.<\/p>\n

We did succeed at bed-time rituals \u2013 we needed those routines probably as much as the kids did. No matter where we lived (and we lived a lot of places), bedtime was a sacred benediction to the day \u2013 bath, pj\u2019s, teeth-brushing, a bit of play just for fun (to\u00a0draw out the rest of the day\u2019s energy), and then to bed. \u201cTo bed\u201d also included a story, prayers, and a song or two. By that time,\u00a0our children\u00a0were, for the most part, settled, snuggled down, ready to let the day go.<\/p>\n

We always sang the same 2-3 songs. All through their growing up years. Right until they somehow arrived at that point when lullabies went the way of story-time. They read their own Bibles and they chose their own music. It happens so fast,,.always. Sigh.<\/p>\n

Those 3 songs (linked below) were Jesus, Name Above All Names<\/em> (Naida Hearn, 1974); Jesus \u2013 There\u2019s Something About That Name<\/em> (Gloria & Bill Gaither, 1970); and I Love You, Lord, and I Lift My Voice<\/em> (Laurie Klein, 1978). These three songs soothed to sleep our three little ones wherever we were. Today, they are grown and their millennial music tastes have grown with them. Still, these songs remind them, and us, of a time that seems not so long ago \u2013 when we were a family of five who, at the end of the day, loved Jesus \u2013 no matter where\u00a0we were, with children growing up across four countries.\u00a0Those simple little praise songs, turned lullabies, sealed each day with\u00a0the hum and the cuddle of\u00a0God\u2019s unfailing love.<\/p>\n

What lullabies do you remember? Singing them or hearing them as you nodded off to sleep\u2026<\/p>\n

Jesus, Name Above All Names<\/em> \u2013 YouTube with Lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n

Song Story of Jesus, Name Above All Names <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Jesus \u2013 There\u2019s Something About That Name<\/em> \u2013 Godtube video<\/a><\/p>\n

Song Story of Jesus \u2013 There\u2019s Just Something About That Name<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I Love You, Lord, and I Lift My Voice<\/em> \u2013 Youtube with Lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n

Song Story of I Love You, Lord, and I Lift My Voice<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n

Song Story of I Love You, Lord, and I Lift My Voice<\/em> with added verses by John Piper <\/a><\/p>\n

Phil Keaggy\u2019s Instrumental Version of I Love You Lord<\/em> on The Wind and The Wheat<\/em> album<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to post in Comments what your favorite lullabies were\u2026or what songs you can imagine would make great lullabies for raising up worshippers.<\/p>\n

As you think\u2026I\u2019m posting a \u201cthrough the years\u201d sequence of our sleeping child<\/a>\u2026the one who could sleep anywhere at any time\u2026who still needed those lullabies at night\u2026and is one of those worshippers today.<\/p>\n

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