Emphasis Preaching Journal
My Lord! What A Morning...
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"My Lord! What A Morning" is the title of a hymn found in many hymnals. Its refrain goes like this:
My Lord! what a morning,
My Lord! what a morning,
Oh, my Lord! what a morning,
When the stars begin to fall.
What sort of people would celebrate such a dreadful cosmic cataclysm? The answer can be found in the author line printed in the hymnal: "African-American spiritual." This song rose out of slavery -- out of an entire people's horrific, protracted experience of suffering.
My Lord! what a morning,
My Lord! what a morning,
Oh, my Lord! what a morning,
When the stars begin to fall.
What sort of people would celebrate such a dreadful cosmic cataclysm? The answer can be found in the author line printed in the hymnal: "African-American spiritual." This song rose out of slavery -- out of an entire people's horrific, protracted experience of suffering.