{"id":623,"date":"2014-08-20T08:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-08-21T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:44:17","slug":"worship-wednesday-you-are-my-vision-rend-collective-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Worship Wednesday – You Are My Vision – Rend Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The strongest memories I have of the song Be Thou My Vision<\/em> are connected with worship across North Africa. When our children were growing up, we “attended church” – expat families who gathered once or twice a week to worship in English.\u00a0 We sang great hymns, old and more modern, with guitar accompaniment, and worship leaders with more British and Irish accents than American. I remember our little family, strung out along a pew of these little churches. Our stair-step children, with shoulders squared, singing from hymnals in the early years and then words projected on the stuccoed front walls.<\/p>\n

We sang Be Thou My Vision<\/em>, this old Irish hymn, across three countries in Heliopolis Community Church (Cairo), St. George’s (Tunis), and St. John’s (Casablanca). Before our children all launched back into life in the US, we “attended” church less and became a part of house churches. There we still sang Be Thou My Vision, <\/em>still with guitar<\/a>…less with a British or Irish accent.<\/p>\n

Now to Rend Collective. I heard this group for the first time on my radio about a year ago. The song was Second Chance<\/em>*. I jotted down the group’s name and song (while driving…sigh) and would later buy the album** based on that one song. Have you ever done that?<\/p>\n

When I heard You are My Vision<\/em>, my first thought was how could anyone mess with such a great hymn\u00a0that so truly magnifies God? As I listened, the personal nature of this version drew me in. This old Irish hymn written in the 8th century has been, not-so-much-updated but, celebrated by an Irish group of young worshippers. Not celebrating the song\u00a0so much as celebrating the Saviour of the song.<\/p>\n

Worship with me through the lyrics and music of You are My Vision<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You are my vision, oh King of mine heart. Nothing else satisfies, only You, Lord. You are my best thought, by day or by night. Waking or sleeping, Your presence, my light.<\/p>\n

You are my wisdom; You are my true word – I ever with You and You with me, Lord. You’re my great Father and I’m Your true Son. You dwell inside me, together we’re one.<\/p>\n

You are my battle shield, sword for the fight. You are my dignity; You’re my delight. You’re my soul’s shelter, and You’re my high tower. Come raise me heavenward, oh, Power of my power.<\/p>\n

I don’t want riches or a man’s empty praise. You’re my inheritance, now and always. You and You only, the first in my heart – \u00a0High king of heaven, my treasure You are.<\/p>\n

High king of heaven, when victory’s won, may I reach heaven’s joy, oh, bright heaven’s Son. Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, oh, Ruler of all.<\/p>\n

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, oh, Ruler of all.<\/p>\n

Lyrics\u00a0for You are My Vision<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

You are My Vision<\/em> – Rend Collective – Official Live – acapella\u00a0part at 2:23 will seriously give you cold chills\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

YouTube video of You are My Vision<\/em> with lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n

**Rend Collective Albums with You are My Vision<\/em> – Homemade Worship by Handmade People<\/em> and Campfire<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rend Collective Art of Celebration<\/em> – Album & Tour<\/a><\/p>\n

Be Thou My Vision<\/em> – Wikipedia – English Methodist Lyrics, 1964<\/a><\/p>\n

Back Story of Be Thou My Vision<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

*YouTube video of Second Chance<\/em> from album Homemade Worship by Handmade People<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

YouTube video of\u00a0\u00a0Build Your Kingdom Here <\/em>from album Homemade Worship by Handmade People<\/em><\/a>\u00a0– another favorite for another day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The strongest memories I have of the song Be Thou My Vision are connected with worship across North Africa. When our children were growing up, we “attended church” – expat families who gathered once or twice a week to worship in English.\u00a0 We sang great hymns, old and more modern, with guitar accompaniment, and worship … Continue reading Worship Wednesday – You Are My Vision – Rend Collective<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[183,33,293,263,432,32,47],"tags":[480,477,475,474,482,331,481,478,473,479,49,360,476],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-religion","category-inspired","category-life-skills","category-lives-full-of-god","category-music","category-walk-with-god","category-wednesday-worship","tag-album","tag-be-thou-my-vision","tag-campfire","tag-homemade-worship-for-handmade-people","tag-house-church","tag-hymn","tag-hymnal","tag-irish","tag-rend-collective","tag-the-art-of-celebration","tag-worship","tag-worship-wednesday","tag-you-are-my-vision"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pauPAB-a3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}