compiled her own selection of favourite hymns and
in each case gives a very personal account of what
the particular hymn means to her.
“The hymns with the strongest grip on our affections are
frequently those we sang, or had sung to us, as children.
There is a respected TV foreign correspondent who to
this day regularly chants ‘I will make you fishers of men’
to calm himself down when writing scripts to an
imminent deadline. He says he can’t get it out of his
head. These childhood hymns go deep - so deep that
although you may not consciously even have liked them,
or been secretly afraid of the gory crucifixion images, or
indeed, like my mother who can still recite by heart
some of the most complex metrical psalms, not have
understood a word at the time they were being learned,
yet by the mysterious action of tune and word-picture
on the porous mind of a child, they remain a part of
you forever”.
ISBN: 9780826474179
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CROSSROAD/CONTINUUM PUB G - published 15/05/2004
Format: Hardback