Restless Pilgrim

I’ve been an acapella mood recently, so expect to see a bit more of that over the next couple of weeks. Here’s a rendition of the “Amazing Grace” by an all-female a cappella group from Brigham Young University. Mormons singing a Protestant hymn, but my, they do it beautifully!

Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I’m found
Was blind, but now I see

Through countless dangers, doubts and fears
I have already come
Gods grace has brought me safely here
And grace will lead me home

My chains are gone
I’ve been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace

His guiding hand shall be my stay
His strength with me abide
And though I stumble day by day
He shall not leave my side.

My chains are gone, I’ve been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood, His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace.

This earth will one day melt like snow
The sun refuse to shine
Yet God, who sent me here below*
Will be forever mine.
You’ll be forever mine.

* The more traditional line here is “But God, who called me here below”. I haven’t confirmed it, but I have a suspicion that the line used in the video might be an attempt to sneak into the song the Mormon idea of pre-existent souls. I’m choosing to interpret it in the sense that, while on Earth, God sends me to share the Gospel 🙂