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O LORD My Rock, in Desperation

Author: Marie J. Post Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

Meter: 9.8.9.8 Appears in 29 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mary J. Hammond; Emily Brink Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 17564 32551 12353 Used With Text: O LORD My Rock, in Desperation

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O LORD My Rock, in Desperation

Author: Marie J. Post Hymnal: Christian Worship #28B (2021) Meter: 9.8.9.8 Hymnal Title: Christian Worship Topics: Anoint; Desperation; Friends; God as Fortress; God as Rock; God as Shepherd; God as Shield; God as Strength; Hypocrisy; Prayer Scripture: Psalm 28 Languages: English Tune Title: SPIRITUS VITAE

O LORD My Rock, in Desperation

Author: Marie J. Post Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #28 (1987) Meter: 9.8.9.8 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Topics: Laments; Temptation & Trial; Alternative Harmonizations; Laments; Refuge; Temptation & Trial Scripture: Psalm 28 Languages: English Tune Title: SPIRITUS VITAE

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Marie J. Post

1919 - 1990 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Versifier of "O LORD My Rock, in Desperation" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Marie (Tuinstra) Post (b. Jenison, MI, 1919; d. Grand Rapids, MI, 1990) While attending Dutch church services as a child, Post was first introduced to the Genevan psalms, which influenced her later writings. She attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied with Henry Zylstra. From 1940 to 1942 she taught at the Muskegon Christian Junior High School. For over thirty years Post wrote poetry for the Grand Rapids Press and various church periodicals. She gave many readings of her poetry in churches and schools and has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies. Two important collections of her poems are I Never Visited an Artist Before (1977) and the posthumous Sandals, Sails, and Saints (1993). A member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee, Post was a significant contributor to its array of original texts and paraphrases. Bert Polman

Mary J. Hammond

1878 - 1964 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Composer of "SPIRITUS VITAE" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Born: 1878, England. Died: January 23, 1964, Hilligdon Nursing Home, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Near the end of her life, Hammond lived in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Emily R. Brink

b. 1940 Person Name: Emily Brink Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Harmonizer (alt. harm.) of "SPIRITUS VITAE" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Emily R. Brink is a Senior Research Fellow of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Adjunct Professor of Church Music and Worship at Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her main areas of responsibility are conference planning and global resources. She is program manager of the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship, which draws more than 70 presenters and 1600 participants from around the world. She also travels widely to lecture and to learn about worship in different parts of the world, especially in Asia, where she has lectured in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan. Her areas of interest include congregational song from all times and places; psalmody; hymnal editing. She was editor of four hymnals and consults with a wide range of churches on worship renewal issues. Dr. Brink is active in the American Guild of Organists, serving in both local and national offices, as well as in the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (president from 1990 1992) and named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in 2004 in recognition of distinguished services to hymnody and hymnology. --internal.calvinseminary.edu/