So many songs and 'new hymns' are of such abysmal quality that we really must rejoice when the likes of that or of a '10,000 Reasons' slips through the net.
Many today rise to the dizzy heights of adequacy but the numbers which fall below this benchmark seem to form a significant majority.
Note how many have words which lack poetry and sound merely trite.
Note too, how many are relatively trivial in what they attempt to do.
Note how many were designed for single singers rather than for corporate worship.
Old-style hymn books are full of 'weak' hymns.
What we desperately need today is the best of the old sung alongside the best of the new.
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