{"id":1010,"date":"2020-06-21T20:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:27:33","slug":"a-norwegian-benediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-norwegian-benediction\/","title":{"rendered":"A Norwegian Benediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from yesterday&#8217;s post about the band tour my choice to day is a lovely song that Howard arranged and which we used as a benediction during the visit to Norway. This is not the band arrangement (I don&#8217;t have a recording of that) &#8211; but I rather like this version.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The words are :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Thy holy wings, O Savior,<br \/>\nSpread gently over me,<br \/>\nAnd let me rest securely<br \/>\nThrough good and ill in thee.<br \/>\nOh, be my strength and portion<br \/>\nMy rock and hiding place,<br \/>\nAnd let my ev&#8217;ry moment<br \/>\nBe lived within thy grace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh, wash me in the waters<br \/>\nOf Noah&#8217;s cleansing flood;<br \/>\nGive me a willing spirit,<br \/>\nA heart, both clean and good.<br \/>\nAnd take into thy keeping<br \/>\nThy children great and small,<br \/>\nAnd while we sweetly slumber,<br \/>\nEnfold us one and all.<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c94RJyGLEEI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sissel : Bred Dina<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c94RJyGLEEI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em> :<\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard J Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And this is the version where I first heard the song! Gorgeous! Thanks for the reminder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Kristiansen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From my national service back in 1985. For many years the band of the royal guards used this tune as a conclusion of the programs.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k9IaxnKsVis&#038;start=1200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oladrill 1985, Huseby \/ HMKG Drill Program<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k9IaxnKsVis?start=1200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>George R McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excellent Tom &#8211; glad you liked the link &#8211; and yesterday&#8217;s &#8211; good memories\ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from yesterday&#8217;s post about the band tour my choice to day is a lovely song that Howard arranged and which we used as a benediction during the visit to Norway. This is not the band arrangement (I don&#8217;t have a recording of that) &#8211; but I rather like this version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[104,105,114],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-popular","tag-religious","tag-vocal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}