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Introduction to Amazing Grace - Bob Hohler
One of the things Joe and Marsha shared with one another and with their friends was their love for great music, especially choral music. They were regular ticket holders at concerts by the Handel and Haydn Society and the Cantata Singers. Joe would have taken great pleasure from the contribution of the Longwood Symphony Players today. Joe’s taste was quite far ranging (as is Marsha’s). He chose Amazing Grace because I think he admired its purity and simplicity. He also appreciated that it was the anthem of the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century and of the anti war movement in the twentieth. Let’s stand up and sing it together.
[Hymn]
The great anthropologist and social scientist, Robert Redfield, late in his life, after years of studying human behavior, wrote the following lines:
“Over and beyond the eating and the sleeping, one after another, the human spirit adds, invents, creates, something that is better than what was before. We live for the growing of the human spirit and we strive toward that growth up to the last moment of possibility.”
Amen.
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