[Magdalen] No mail...

[Grace Cangialosi]

We sang “In the Garden” at a number of funerals when I was pastoring in the mountains. The older folks loved it, and I had no problem with it. I learned it in high school, when I played the organ for the Army chapel.

I am embarrassed to say, however, that it was not until somebody said something a few weeks ago, that I realized it was about/spoken by Mary Magdalen!  I always though of it from a personal point of view. Apparently everyone in the world knew it was MM speaking.....

(And you all know, of course, that it was this song that revealed God’s first name: “Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me, Andy tells me...”). 

Grace, g,d,&r

> On Apr 21, 2018, at 12:25 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We are returned from Bermuda and grinning.
> In the Garden ???
> well, she was a very old woman.
> 
> I have a story about In the Garden.
> It was removed from the Wellesley hymnal circa 1960
> because it made the students shriek with laughter.
> Autre temps.
> -M, a somewhat old woman
> 
> PS: I set up filters so the Magdalen mail goes to its own folder. So I can
> check it or not. Someone else can probably explain this better.
> 
> PPS: Speaking of Wellesley, Connie Chandler-Ward has died. See legacy.com
> for more information.
> 
>> On Saturday, April 21, 2018, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm here...not as often as before. My email has become a swamp of unwanted
>> stuff and it's so wearisome combing through it for those that I want to
>> read.
>> 
>> Is anyone else watching the Bush funeral on CNN?
>> 
>> Magnificent church, magnificent music..
>> 
>> We have had two grand funerals in South Africa these past two weeks -
>> Mam'Winnie Madikizela-Mandela last week, and former Cabinet Minister Dr
>> Zola Skweyiya today. Both emotional in different ways.
>> 
>> I thought that I would feel detached from the First Lady's funeral service,
>> hoping just to enjoy the music (which I am).
>> 
>> But it's not like that. I'm feeling a bit thin skinned today for various
>> reasons known and unknown, but this service is really getting to me. It
>> feels as though I'm watching the funeral of a world I knew and have taken
>> for granted, a world in which the President of the USA was a leader,
>> someone who made a contribution and at least tried to make the world a
>> safer place
>>