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A Song Sung Blue
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ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY GOD
Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost
Years ago, Neil Diamond wrote and recorded a song that became quite popular; it was entitled "Song Sung Blue." The lyrics have long left me, but that title came rushing back when I began looking at David's lament for Saul and Jonathan. That's a good definition of a lament -- a song sung blue.
A Medium for Grief
At first this might strike us as a bit strange -- singing our grief -- but there it clearly is in the first chapter of 2 Samuel:
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you daintily in scarlet,
A Medium for Grief
At first this might strike us as a bit strange -- singing our grief -- but there it clearly is in the first chapter of 2 Samuel:
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you daintily in scarlet,
