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September 28, 2008

Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

Visiting my aunt's church this morning I "learned" Chris Tomlin's version of Take My Life. After church when watching a football game(or so I thought) I looked around the room and realized everyone else was napping. Since I didn't give two-hoots about the Jets/Cardinals game I decided to find this song before it escaped my mind. One thing I appreciate about Chris Tomlin is that essentially he teaches how he plays various songs on worshiptogether.com...then someone kindly posts all those videos on youtube. I never ended up finding a demo of Take My Life but I did watch his video teaching Amazing Grace(My Chains are Gone). I've heard this song a thousand times and always assumed he'd written that last verse he sings:
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow
The sun forbear to shine
But God, Who called me here below
Will be forever mine...
Will be forever mine...
You are forever mine
Apparently, or at least according to Tomlin's research this was the original last verse and the "when we've been there..." verse was added 100 years after Newton wrote Amazing Grace. Who knew? Certainly not me! I really like this verse! I don't know how to explain why. Maybe it just brings a little affirmation that this whole job hunt/life change thing is gonna be ok. Anywho...