I had not intended to post any Youtube videos during my Occupying Lent thing but I had this song stuck in my head when Daniel and I were walking around the church yesterday afternoon. I think I’ll make this a weekly thing and just post commentary on whatever videos I use. 🙂

So… this is a setting of a portion of Psalm 51. (I always read the Psalms from the King James version, not because I am a KJV-only Christian but instead because I love how the Elizabethan English reads.) It’s one that I’m not sure where I learned — possibly the Episcopal church I attended in San Jose but it also could have been college. In any case, it’s one that we used as a confession of sin during “contemporary” services when I became a Lutheran.

As you can hear (and see), it’s a simple enough song that it works for youth group and camp. (I actually have it on a camp music CD from a Lutheran camp in northern California.) I love it because it implants that bit of Scripture in the hearts of the kids. I look forward to teaching it to Daniel once he’s older.