Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning - The Wire

I found these lyrics at Keep your lamps trimmed and burnin'. Executive Producer: Shelby T. Murphy. The light is fueled by the oil. This year, for the first time in decades, I will miss Cherrydale's Living Nativity and Choir Concert, but as Fran points out, our family will be having a "personal nativity. "

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The Portland based folk artist says: "I first heard "Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning" from the. This song reminds me of Jesus parable of the foolish virgins who forgot to buy spare oil for their lamps. At midnight, when they least expected it, the groom arrived with his party. There are many interpretations of the parable and many versions of the spiritual. A cappella This traditional Advent spiritual is fun from beginning to end! And there's nothing anyone can do to make it happen. Love Came Down At Christmas Lyrics. How can we actively wait in a state of readiness, and not be caught in a state of distraction, impatience, carelessness or laziness? You can find the song your looking for on a CD by the Berge Family Singers from Minnesota. The groom's response is clear and unambiguous: "I do not know you! " Related threads: (origins) Origins: Give Me Oil in my Lamp (44). The words, Dona Nobis Pacem, mean "Grant us peace" in Latin.

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Mark Lowry, lyricist of this contemporary song, originally wrote the words in 1984 for a Christmas pageant at his church. They are often called young women, or virgins, in this parable. These are the lyrics I hear when I play: Keep your lamps trimmed and burning. What does it mean to wait biblically? The third strand is whatever we are experiencing in our life… friends or enemies, school or career, difficulties or fulfillments. When 4-year-old Violet and I watched it together, I found it hard to explain to her the suffering that impelled black people to leave the familiar and tackle the unknown.

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Info re: 'Give me oil in my lamp' (Esperanto) (12). I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see, I've got oil in my vessel and my lamp trimmed and burning. All things rest under His hand. It looks like the legendary blues guitarist and singer Rev. No visit from Angel Gabriel, but a new awareness of Mary's challenges and joys. Greg Gilpin - Colla Voce Music LLC. Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Jonathan Fuller. Braid together God with present challenges, and we can find meaning. Date: 29 May 08 - 04:07 AM. From: Q (Frank Staplin). Then I think we went on to: Darker midnight lies before us 3x For this work is almost done. From: GUEST, dulcimerjohn. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning by Mississippi Fred Mcdowell.

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Choose your instrument. C. Five of the bridesmaids brought extra oil, and five did not. Lyrics © ALPHA MUSIC, INC. That when we study scripture, we remember things that help us to live our life, like remembering to keep our lamps trimmed and ready. The absolute chaos happening in Afghanistan right now. This makes a lot of sense to me, considering the lines our choir sings: Keep your lamps trimmed and burning, The time is drawing nigh.... Children, don't get weary, The time is drawing nigh. Sinner don't stop praying. The mercy is fueled by the Spirit. Christian journey soon be over. Last year's Living Nativity included a particularly magical moment. Man Of Sorrows, What A Name Lyrics, Story, and Video. From: GUEST, I think you are speaking of the old spiritua.

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It's hard to keep all these lamp oil songs separate. Blues musicians in the early days had a tradition of borrowing music and lyrics from each other, so it's not clear who originally wrote the song. Even if it was found before 1900, I doubt that it would have anything to do with the Underground Railroad. These spirituals were sung by African American slaves in the cotton plantations of America.

Is it an ulcerating, thumb-twiddling act of idle impatience? This comes from a biblical passage. The wise maidens truly waited, and were ready for the unexpected. See 129086, Jubilee Songs.