{"id":16283,"date":"2022-01-16T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16283"},"modified":"2022-01-15T18:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T23:15:46","slug":"sunday-singing-wide-open-are-thine-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16283","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Wide Open Are Thine Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wide Open are Thine Hands, arr. by A. Sullivan, performed by the Norsemen Quartet\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oBvy2x9Meu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>&#8220;Wide Open Are Thine Hands,&#8221; sung by the Norsemen Quartet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The words of this hymn are attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), an <a href=\"https:\/\/hymnary.org\/person\/Clairvaux_Bo\">influential abbot who wrote many meditations<\/a>. I found that attribution questioned by Garcia Grindal on her blog dedicated to hymns. She says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hymnfortheday.com\/post\/hymn-344-wide-open-are-thy-hands\">Arnulf of Leuven, Abbot of Villers-la-Ville<\/a>, (1200-1250) is the author of the original poem, and it sounds so much like Bernard who could blame us for misattributing it to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Charles Porterfield Krauth of Martinsburg, Virginia, a Lutheran scholar and musician, translated the poem into English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wide open are Thy hands,<br>Paying with more than gold<br>The awful debt of guilty men,<br>Forever and of old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ah, let me grasp those hands,<br>That we may never part,<br>And let the power of their blood<br>Sustain my fainting heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wide open are Thine arms,<br>A fallen world t&#8217;embrace;<br>To take to love and endless rest<br>Our whole forsaken race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord, I am sad and poor,<br>But boundless is Thy grace;<br>Give me the soul transforming joy<br>For which I seek Thy face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Draw all my mind and heart<br>Up to Thy throne on high,<br>And let Thy sacred Cross exalt<br>My spirit to the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To these, Thy mighty hand,<br>My spirit I resign;<br>Living, I live alone to Thee,<br>And, dying, I am Thine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words of this hymn are attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), an influential abbot who wrote many meditations. I found that attribution questioned by Garcia Grindal on her blog dedicated to hymns. She says Arnulf of Leuven, Abbot of Villers-la-Ville, (1200-1250) is the author of the original poem, and it sounds so much like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16283\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Wide Open Are Thine Hands<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1254,3966],"class_list":["post-16283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","tag-sunday-singing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16285,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions\/16285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}