titles for 2.14.2010

Yesterday was not just "2.14.2010," but it was Valentine's Day. We need more than one day a year to be romantic. But it was also a day that snow lay on the ground in 49 of the 50 states. That was my trigger to use Young's arrangement of "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." It's a famous missionary hymn of the previous century. A good reminder as snow covers the ground that what we think is out there is sometimes closer than we think. That being missional is sometimes as close as home.

Then I took the prelude up to the hour with "I Need Thee Every Hour, Most Gracious Lord, No tender voice like thine can peace afford." Annie Hawkes was so well known her 1872 obituary appeard in the New York Times. She had written poetry since she was 14. She died at age 83.