Music this week is Ruth Campbell’s ‘Jesus Minds an Understaunds’. I heard this on David Robertson’s podcast and have listened to it many times since. It is an exquisitely beautiful song that helps us to see something of the beauty of God’s love for us in Jesus. I don’t know where the words come from and I haven’t been able to find out so far. It’s clearly a Scottish dialect which is mostly comprehensible to me. These are the last two verses:
Lord Jesus, whan A cum tae dee,
haud up yer cross in front o me,
in ma last meenits let me see
ye mind an understaund.Ye deed a human deeth yersel
tae save the lykes o me frae hell
may that blest thoucht ma fears dispel
ye mind an understaund.When lost in wunner at yer grace,
an lost in love afore yer face,
wi the redeemed A tak ma place
in heiven’s glory land,E’en then, dear Jesus, whit it cost
for ye tae lea yer heavenly host
tae save puir sinners that war lost
A’ll never understaund.
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