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Wayfaring Stranger

CSS Reboot ... well not quite

I have spent a few hours off and on (over a few nights) trying to adapt a new template to my blog. The template was created for "another blog site" (aka. wordpress). The "other" template I am copying is "peaceful rush". I thought the "garden path" image at the top would fit my "Wayfaring Stranger" moniker quite nicely.

As for my blog name, I never blogged the change from my old moniker. But since most of my postings were before/during/after my Russia trips, I changed the old title to something more apropos. I.e. something to more closely reflect the missions focus of this blog. After all, when I created this site I knew nothing about what I wanted to talk about. And, as it turns out, missions has been my focus.

So, for those of you who do not know what "Wayfaring Stranger" means; it is from a song. If the lyrics do not help, post a comment and I'll explain more. Lyrics:

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Travelling through this world alone
There is no sickness, toil or danger
In that fair land to which I go

I'm going home
To see my mother
I'm going home
No more to roam
I am just going over Jordan
I am just going over home

I know dark clouds will hover on me,
I know my pathway is rough and steep
Beauteous fields lie right before me
Where weary eyes no more will weep
I'm going home to see my father
I'm going home no more to roam
I am just going over Jordan
I am just going over home

I'll soon be free from every trial
This form will rest beneath the sun
I'll drop the cross of self-denial
Come back home with God
I'm going home to see my savior
I'm going home no more to roam
I am just going over Jordan
I am just going over home

I guess the lines I like best are "I'm going home to see my father / I'm going home no more to roam". That's it in a nutshell for me. This life is great. This life is sweet. But this life is nothing in comparison to where I am going .... wanna come!!??

posted by iWantToKeepAnon at 10:35 PM |  

3 Responses to “CSS Reboot ... well not quite”:

  1. Thanks for reading my post and comments that follow ...
  2. Blogger iWantToKeepAnon, on 3/07/2007 11:18 PM Said:
    FYI, the "well not quite" part of the title is b/c I did not design the "peaceful rush" template myself. I only adapted it to blogger's layout engine.

    I hope you like it! Leave me a comment on what you think!

     

  3. Anonymous Anonymous, on 4/30/2007 8:18 AM Said:
    Have you heard 16 Horsepowers version of Wayfaring Stranger? It's really beautiful, and with some variations in the lyrics. "I'm going there to see my loved ones, gone before me one by one" for one. By the way, I never really got the part about 'going over Jordan', what is this Jordan that the song refers to? A river, and if so, what does it symbolize?

     

  4. Blogger iWantToKeepAnon, on 4/30/2007 10:04 AM Said:
    @freddie,

    I have not heard the 16 Horsepowers version, sounds cool. As for the Jordan, it is a river and the Israelites crossed it to enter the promised land. So I guess the lyrics are drawing on that imagery to parallel our crossing over into Heaven.

    Freddie, are you a "God follower"? Or interested in finding out more? Leave me more comments or visit http://www.needhim.org/

     

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