#722: O Christ, Your Heart, Compassionate
Nov. 13th, 2020 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsAs promised, here's the one about "heart compassionate." Actually these two are even more similar than that suggests; the last verse of that one starts "O God, whose heart compassionate bears every human pain;" this one in its first line is "O Christ, your heart, compassionate, bore every human pain." This one was written four years later, I wonder if someone dared him to use this as a jumping-off point and he ran with it?!
"O Love that made the distant stars, yet marks the sparrow's fall" is great (and probably qualifies this one for Jesus=Proper Nouns). But the "heart" metaphors zigzag between "join our hearts with those who weep" to then "create new hearts in us that beat in time with yours." Depending on how screwed up I'm feeling, there can be quite a difference between those! Like, getting a new heart that's more aligned with Jesus' would be great. But lacking that, having my heart linked with someone else who's hurting doesn't feel like it's very useful, just spreading the misery.
"O Love that made the distant stars, yet marks the sparrow's fall" is great (and probably qualifies this one for Jesus=Proper Nouns). But the "heart" metaphors zigzag between "join our hearts with those who weep" to then "create new hearts in us that beat in time with yours." Depending on how screwed up I'm feeling, there can be quite a difference between those! Like, getting a new heart that's more aligned with Jesus' would be great. But lacking that, having my heart linked with someone else who's hurting doesn't feel like it's very useful, just spreading the misery.
