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He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Matching Instances: 7
He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
O WALY WALY
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 204 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Tune Sources: English meldoy Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51232 16551 71234 Used With Text: He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
O WALY WALY
He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Hymnal: Worship (4th ed.) #976 (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 He healed the darkness of my mind
The day he gave my sight to me.
It was not sin that made me blind;
It was no sinner made me see.
2 Let others call my faith a lie
Or try to stir up doubt in me.
Look at me now! None can deny
I once was blind, and now I see!
3 Ask me not how! But I know who
Has opened up new worlds to me.
This Jesus does what none can do;
I once was blind, and now I see! Topics: Pastoral Care of the Sick; Lent IV A Scripture: John 9 Languages: English Tune Title: O WALY WALY
He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Hymnal: Gather (3rd ed.) #953 (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Pastoral Care of the Sick; Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ; Sin Scripture: John 9 Languages: English Tune Title: ARLINGTON
He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Hymnal: RitualSong #951 (1996) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 He healed the darkness of my mind
The day he gave my sight to me:
It was not sin that made me blind;
It was no sinner made me see.
2 Let others call my faith a lie,
Or try to stir up doubt in me:
Look at me now! None can deny
I once was blind, and now I see.
3 Ask me not how! But I know who
Has opened up new worlds to me:
This Jesus does what none can do:
I once was blind, and now I see! Topics: Faith; Healing; Jesus Christ; Lent; Lent 4 Year A; Pastoral Care of the Sick; Pastoral Care of the Sick; Penance; Sin; Vision Scripture: John 9 Languages: English Tune Title: ARLINGTON
He Healed the Darkness of My Mind
Fred Pratt Green
1903 - 2000 Person Name: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Author of "He Healed the Darkness of My Mind (Quitó la Oscuridad en Mí)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies.
Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more."
--Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.
Fred Pratt Green
David Haas
b. 1957 Person Name: David Haas, b. 1957 Composer of "ARLINGTON " in Gather Comprehensive
David Haas
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Arranger of "O WALY WALY" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
