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lutheranhymns) wrote2019-04-22 11:56 pm
lutheranhymns) wrote2019-04-22 11:56 pm
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#612: Healer of Our Every Ill
Marty Haugen again!
Lots of feminine rhymes that are just masculine ones in disguise?
Yep. (Perhaps ironically, we get other/brother, which is a different kind of "masculine." And the chorus has tomorrow/sorrow. But most of them are the modified kind.
What is the significance of addressing God as "Spirit" in three of the verses and "God" in the other one?
I...think that's just a way to make the syllable count work?
Lots of feminine rhymes that are just masculine ones in disguise?
Yep. (Perhaps ironically, we get other/brother, which is a different kind of "masculine." And the chorus has tomorrow/sorrow. But most of them are the modified kind.
What is the significance of addressing God as "Spirit" in three of the verses and "God" in the other one?
I...think that's just a way to make the syllable count work?