Jesus Loves Me
April 20th, 2025 by G.
On the sweetness
During sacrament you think about this symbolic passover and this symbolic crucifixion (the broken body, the blood) taking place on the day that is the weekly symbol of the Resurrection, Sunday.
The children sing “Gethsemane, Jesus loves me.” Like you do every time, you think those are trash lyrics. Like you do every time, you cry.
E.C.
April 20, 2025
I was in charge of the program for today, so we had four musical numbers, two choir numbers, and six congregational hymns, and the bishop shared his testimony at the end. There was a lot of focus on the Redeemer – Sweet Redeemer, I Know that My Redeemer Lives, and Savior, Redeemer of My Soul.
Half the congregation was crying by the end.
It has been a good Easter Sunday.
G.
April 20, 2025
Well done, E.C.
sute
April 22, 2025
“Like you do every time, you think those are trash lyrics”
You know, my take on it is, the first refrain should be “Jesus knows me” and the second should be “Jesus loves me”.
I feel what this does is it sets up the reality that Jesus knows you, he’s knows what you’ve done, how you feel, knows your pain, knows your cruelty, knows your frivolity, knows all that deeply and intimately, because he suffered for all those things —- and knowing it all, he loves you still. Jesus loves me.
My take on it if those lines were modified like that is the words would give us more reflection and more power to love being used in that context rather than feeling a little saccharine. Which it’s not at all, but sometimes in our cynic ways we might feel otherwise.