all things bright and beautiful audiobook

Alexander as part of her collection of hymn texts on articles of the Apostle’s Creed.

Let us lift our voices in praise to our maker, the creator of all things bright and beautiful. Our God is imaginative, and His creation is both whimsical and sometimes startlingly majestic. Our God is a good God, who gives us good things, and then tasks us with taking care of them. For when we are in the midst of God’s creation, are our ideas of who God is not being shaped by all that we see? God made a good creation, and He loves it. These scenes should bring to mind Genesis 1:31: “And God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” Albert Bailey is perhaps mistaken when he claims that Alexander forgot her theology in the writing of these verses. Whether we’re in a park, on a mountain, at the sea or a lake, or simply driving down the highway with a glorious sunset behind us, it is not difficult to find ourselves lost in the beauty of God’s creation. Many of us, if not all, have had these moments. Alexander has forgotten her theology and lost herself in the beauty of nature” ( The Gospel in Hymns, 354). In his book on hymns, Albert Bailey writes of this particular one, “For once Mrs. John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) It is usually given in an unaltered form, as in Thring's Collection, 1882. A successful and popular hymn for children, on the article of the Creed, 'Maker of Heaven and Earth,' which appeared in her Hymns for Little Children, 1848, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines. The final stanza and the refrain teach us that the creation points to and praises the Creator, for 'the Lord God made them all.' Note that 'all' is used four times in the refrain!Īs a creation hymn, especially for children but also suitable for adults with Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 9, as a hymn of confession of faith.Īll things bright and beautiful. 1) mountains, rivers, daylight, and evening (st. It is a catalog text (see also 431 and 433) because it enumerates various creatures God has made: flowers and birds (st. The vivid images depicting the creedal statement are easily understood by God's children of all ages. In the currently familiar form of this hymn Alexander's original first stanza has been turned into the refrain, and her stanzas 3 and 6 have been omitted. This text, whose biblical source is Genesis 1:31 ('and God saw all that he had made, and it was very good'), is Alexander's explanation of the Creed's phrase 'Maker of heaven and earth.' The text was first published in her Hymns for Little Children (1848) in seven stanzas, one of which was: Alexander ( PHH 346) wrote a number of hymn texts on articles of the Apostles' Creed.

All things bright and beautiful audiobook