Amazing Grace - Did You Know?

The history of the hymn, according to Wintley Phipps: 

 

First Peoples' renditions of Amazing Grace: 

When Things Get Really, Really Rough & Tough...

I sing this... not as well as fellow Kiwi Hayley Westenra, but well enough to lift my spirits...

and here's another New Zealander, Sir Howard Morrison, singing How Great Thou Art, first in English and then in Maori - his mother tongue - absolutely, powerfully, spine-tinglingly gorgeous ...



and here's my other "time to crawl out of the rut" sacred song - The Lord is My Shepherd:




and yes I'm a feminist and I honour the Goddess and no, I'm not a Christian, though I believe in the values taught by the man Jesus... there's truth and great song in all traditions...