Comments on: Guest Blogger: Lynne Baab http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/2009/11/guest-blogger-lynne-baab/ is the author of THE CIRCLE OF SEASONS: MEETING GOD IN THE CHURCH YEAR (InterVarsity). She blogs about the 3R's: reading, writing, and raising her four children. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven Lympus http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/2009/11/guest-blogger-lynne-baab/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Steven Lympus Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:28:44 +0000 http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/?p=799#comment-678 Lynne, I've been a fan of the BCP since my time in Canada with the Anglicans. And their hymns are deep inside me too. Thank you for this, and miss you friend, -SL Lynne, I’ve been a fan of the BCP since my time in Canada with the Anglicans. And their hymns are deep inside me too. Thank you for this, and miss you friend, -SL

]]> By: Kimberlee http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/2009/11/guest-blogger-lynne-baab/comment-page-1/#comment-638 Kimberlee Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:13:24 +0000 http://www.kimberleeconwayireton.net/?p=799#comment-638 I love the BCP, too. I discovered it when I was 20 and studying in Britain for a quarter. After reading your post, I dug out my copy that I bought while I was there. It's the old 1928 version with the KJV psalms and the prayers and collects full of thee's and thou's. After reading a contemporary translation of the psalms for daily prayer for the past eight or ten years, coming back to the KJV is like pouring clear water over my soul. Yesterday, I read these beautiful verses: <em>Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way; No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death... Up, Lord, why sleepest thou? Awake and be not absent from us forever... For our soul is brought low to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the ground. Arise and help us and deliver us for thy mercy's sake. (Psalm 44:19-26) </em> The NRSV just doesn't compare. Thanks for prompting me to pull the BCP off my shelf and immerse myself in its beautiful language! I love the BCP, too. I discovered it when I was 20 and studying in Britain for a quarter. After reading your post, I dug out my copy that I bought while I was there. It’s the old 1928 version with the KJV psalms and the prayers and collects full of thee’s and thou’s.

After reading a contemporary translation of the psalms for daily prayer for the past eight or ten years, coming back to the KJV is like pouring clear water over my soul. Yesterday, I read these beautiful verses:

Our heart is not turned back,
neither our steps gone out of thy way;
No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons
and covered us with the shadow of death…
Up, Lord, why sleepest thou?
Awake and be not absent from us forever…
For our soul is brought low to the dust;
our belly cleaveth unto the ground.
Arise and help us
and deliver us for thy mercy’s sake.
(Psalm 44:19-26)

The NRSV just doesn’t compare. Thanks for prompting me to pull the BCP off my shelf and immerse myself in its beautiful language!

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