I'd never noticed before that the iPhone weather app has a great animation for thunderstorms. Since Chardon is (obviously) beset by bad weather today, I made a .gif of it. I decided a video of On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand would partner with it nicely, but there wasn't a good vocal one. Apparently there's some insidious new tune that everybody's using but which just doesn't do it for me. Or else they sing a verse of Stormy Banks, then move on to some other song in an ill-begotten medley. But I did find this wonderful piano solo version by Jeremy Yowell, and I'm glad I did. I'll put the hymn text below. (It doesn't correspond to the video.) The words were written by Samuel Stennett (1787) and the tune is by Matilda Durham (1835).and cast a wishful eye
to Canaan’s fair and happy land,
where my possessions lie.
O’er all those wide extended plains
shines one eternal day;
there God the Son forever reigns,
and scatters night away.
No chilling winds or poisonous breath
can reach that healthful shore;
sickness and sorrow, pain and death,
are felt and feared no more.
When I shall reach that happy place,
I’ll be forever blest,
for I shall see my Father’s face,
and in his bosom rest.
I am bound for the promised land,
I am bound for the promised land;
oh who will come and go with me?
I am bound for the promised land.
