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So a friend of our family's at church hands my mom a song copied from a hymnal and says she'd love to hear my family sing it sometime. Mom says sure, and we do a bit of sight-singing this afternoon to hear what it's like. It's quite beautiful. So I get home and start searching online for information on it, for a recording and maybe some clearer sheet music, and I come to discover that this song, officially called "Dedication Anthem", has been a favorite of Mennonite churches since it was published in 1830. Its nickname is "606" after its page number in a 1969 Mennonite hymnal.
I blame my ignorance of this on the fact that my church's fellowship never joined the General Conference Mennonite Church.
The other irony is that I was googling the first line of the text, the title and the date, and getting almost nothing, whereas just googling "mennonite 606" brings it up right away: sheet music, cultural articles, YouTube videos... t-shirts...
At the end of "The Weight of Glory" (the sermon, not the book), Lewis opines that the respect that humans deserve in light of our immortal souls does not preclude merrirment, but that you actually have more fun if you're joking with someone you have taken seriously from the start. The immediate thought in my head was how it was always the most beloved professors at my college who got pranked the most. You knew all the music students loved Z because they nicked his M&Ms and teased him for his malapropisms. The president of the university, a highly respected and admired man, always gets pranked during graduation. Or, as I like to quote (from one of said professors): "I only pick on those I love, and I love you all."
Teasing and pranks on someone you don't like is cruel. Teasing and pranks on someone you like and respect is affectionate (and hilarious).
I blame my ignorance of this on the fact that my church's fellowship never joined the General Conference Mennonite Church.
The other irony is that I was googling the first line of the text, the title and the date, and getting almost nothing, whereas just googling "mennonite 606" brings it up right away: sheet music, cultural articles, YouTube videos... t-shirts...
At the end of "The Weight of Glory" (the sermon, not the book), Lewis opines that the respect that humans deserve in light of our immortal souls does not preclude merrirment, but that you actually have more fun if you're joking with someone you have taken seriously from the start. The immediate thought in my head was how it was always the most beloved professors at my college who got pranked the most. You knew all the music students loved Z because they nicked his M&Ms and teased him for his malapropisms. The president of the university, a highly respected and admired man, always gets pranked during graduation. Or, as I like to quote (from one of said professors): "I only pick on those I love, and I love you all."
Teasing and pranks on someone you don't like is cruel. Teasing and pranks on someone you like and respect is affectionate (and hilarious).