See The Flaming Skies!!

Last night I noticed how the light in my room had changed ...walking outside I saw the most wonderful sunset....it was magnificent......uplifting....an 'end of the world' type display of cloud formations....the sun shining but the rain falling....I thought of fabulous Turner paintings.......old masters who thought that the end of the world may yet come to them before they caught on canvas such beauty.........of foreboding and prayers.....






A song immediately came into my head....I didn't know all the words but have just found them..it tells of our brief time on this earth and what will become of us....if you ever saw the film 'Cold Mountain' you would have heard this sung in the 'Battle of Gettysburg' scene.


And am I born to die? To lay this body down!
And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown?
A land of deepest shade, Unpierced by human thought
The dreary regions of the dead, Where all things are forgot.
Soon as from earth I go What will become of me?
Eternal happiness or woe, Must then my portion be!
Waked by the trumpet sound, I from my grave shall rise;
And see the Judge with glory crowned,
And see the flaming skies!

Idumea by Scared Harp Singers Liberty Church.

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