There’s Going To Be A Party featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album Uplifted recorded and produced by Bob Ross

At the Mustard Seed 25th Anniversary celebration my wife had invited a friend of hers who plays whistle and flute in a very well -respected local folk group. I was reminded of a folk song I had made up many years ago- in fact 17 years ago! It had been inspired by an Easter Sunday Selwyn Huges devotion in “Every Day With Jesus” –the page of which is today’s featured pic. The song had never been recorded as there never seemed an opportunity to do so – none of the cds and musicals we produced were appropriate for a folk song – until now that is!!
Back in 2008 I adapted Selwyn’s words to the below:
THE NEW YEAR’S DAY OF THE SOUL
Mary comes to the tomb at the break of the day,
And sees that the stone has been rolled away,
She hurries to tell Peter and John the news,
Who run to the tomb- a race Peter will lose.

John hesitates but Peter bursts in,
To find all that’s there, are strips of linen,
John follows, looks sees and believes,
All that’s happened on this planet this supersedes.

In amazement they gaze at the cloths lying there,
All neatly arranged, no sign of despair,
No laborious unwinding,
But a glorious uprising,
Oh, Resurrection power.

We live and die, Christ died and lives,
And because He lives, we live also,
He is risen! And we will rise too,
Easter’s the New Years Day of the Soul.
Taken from a devotion by Selwyn Hughes in “Every Day With Jesus” Easter Sunday, March 23rd 2008

And to cut a long story short Mustard Seed Songs are going to record and film it – I’ll tell you more next week!

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