True story.
Before July if you had talked about Ronnie Milsap I would have given you the blank look of a man who had absolutely no idea who you were talking about. You could have been talking about Bertrand Greengage* for all I cared.
This changed after I came across a Gaither video and who should pop up but this brother who was just another in the line of superb singer/songwriters who happen to be blind. He rendered this song and the audience seemed to find it somewhat familiar. Familiar to them, unfamiliar to me, but after subsequent repeats I was more familiar with it than my Auntie Nalda. (That’s my real Aunt by the way … but I think it’s fair to say I now know this song more than her.)
Your argument could be that a song like this deserves to be in The Other Place, but what the Gaithers picked up on rightly, is that songs that can apply to a loved one, can equally apply to The Ultimate Loved One. This is seen by this brilliant cover version of the song by the Gaither stalwart Gordon Mote.
This once again proves that songs are not easy to define straightforward as ‘secular’ as though they have no valuable spiritual input. Let’s face it, no one teaches, lives and embodies love more than Jesus and surely that should lead us to sympathise a great deal with the lyrics of this here song.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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*Bertrand Greengage is a name I made up to highlight the point. Although to be fair knowing that it was made up made Bertrand someone I knew more of than poor Ronnie Milsap.
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