March 22, 2010 – 11:35 am
Music is a fundamental part of worship, and was even more so anciently than it is today. Before the printed word made the sacred word so accessible to the masses, it was passed on from generation to generation orally. But this was not just the spoken word. In order for the word to be remembered [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices
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Also tagged bible, creation, hebrew, hugh nibley, hymn, initiate, Jewish, markings, marks, moses, muses, music, native american, prayer circle, rites, round dance, scriptures, symbols, synagogue
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October 13, 2008 – 3:15 pm
One of our readers, Walt, emailed me a link to a fable that is intriguing. It is entitled “The Wolf, The Goat, And The Kid,” and was originally penned by the popular 17th century French poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine. THE WOLF, THE GOAT, AND THE KID by Jean de la Fontaine As [...]
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in [...]
March 26, 2008 – 12:50 pm
William Shakespeare once wrote a sonnet about love, probably the best-known among the 154 he wrote – Sonnet 18. I heard a beautiful song on YouTube this morning sung by David Gilmour and put to the words of this sonnet. It inspired me to write this reply: What would thy lines in memory provide, When [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Texts, Tidbits
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Also tagged death, family, life, love, marriage, poem, relationships, seal, sealing, shakespeare, sonnet 18
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Jesse Gunther reported in an article on BYU Newsnet today about a speech given at BYU by a prominent poet: English majors are essentially “majoring in death,” said Billy Collins, an acclaimed poet laureate in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium on Friday. “If you have an anthology and take out all poetry on death, you [...]
