You're the STAR - Week#1 GARDEN (June 2025)

Welcome to the month of June!! - the month that officially begins summer!

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Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog:

Old Fashion Rhubarb Bread RECIPE

WELCOME to the June 2025 "You're the Star" Blog Hop!

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WELCOME to GARDEN feature week of the June 2025 "You're the STAR" blog hop!
Meet your GARDEN week Hosts 

 
This week is GARDEN feature week
Swing by the GARDEN Hosts blogs:
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories.  Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month. 
The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#1 GARDEN - gardening, homesteading, recycling, outdoor activities &/or preserving (this can include any type of green living,  repurposed ideas, outdoor concerns, posts relating to farm animals etc all while remaining family friendly)

 (These features were chosen from the May 2025 "You're the Star" blog hop)

Rhubarb Raspberry & Red Grapefruit Jam by Scratch Made Food

Spring Peas, Radish & Wheatberry Salad by Comfort Spring Station

Waterfalls in Green Bay, Wisconsin by Amy's Creative Pursuits

Purple Iris by Old Rock Farmhouse

If you've been featured then please grab a STAR button below:

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All Hosts/CoHosts will post this blog hop on every Monday of each week.
Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!
It wouldn't be a linky party with YOU!
(IMPORTANT NOTE: by linking up you understand that you might be featured next month and if so, we will use some of your photos from your post - rest assured - we will always link back to your lovely blog.  We might also share your fantastic posts on social media.  Also, you may link up as many family-friendly posts as you like & YES - other blog hops &/or giveaways are welcome {giveaways and blog hops will NOT be featured though}  Thank You & ENJOY! )

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Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing #140

Welcome to the 140th Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing!

I miss the old hymns that I remember from my childhood - there were no drums, no electric guitar and no mind numbing beat. It was just voices and maybe a piano or an organ. The choir led the congregation in singing - and the words of these hymns are poetic. I realize that there is a need for the modern "seeker oriented" worship music - but it is also necessary to have deeper songs (no offense intended to anyone who prefers the newer church songs).

I decided to have an "Old Fashion Sunday Hymn Sing" once a month on this blog.

I personally do NOT have a great singing voice - I used to play the guitar & piano but my voice is NOT an instrument. That's the great thing about this digital hymn sing, you can warble along without being embarrassed or without offending anyone else.

The hymns that we will be studying are taken from an old hymnal from a Baptist church that is no longer in existence - "The North American Hymnal" published in 1956 by "THE ROGER WILLIAMS PRESS"

I will also try to find a version of the featured hymn on "YouTube" to share with you each month.

Today's featured hymn is "Lead, Kindly Light, Amid the'Encircling Gloom" and the author is John Henry Newman.  This author wrote many pieces of poetry but only a few were published as hymns.  He graduated from Tirinity College in Oxford but then in 1848 he became a Catholic priest.  Later, he became a Cardinal.  

Jesus Is.......(Part#2) - THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

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I have included two lovely versions of this hymn  (videos are located below the lyrics).

Enjoy!

Turn with me to number 543 in your hymnals and let's sing:

Lead, Kindly Light, Amid th'Encircling Gloom

written by John Henry Newman (1801-1890) & composed by John B. Dykes (1823-1876)

1. Lead, kindly Light, amid th'encircling gloom.  Lead Thou me on!  The night is dark, and I am far from home;  Lead Thou me on!  Keep Thoumy feet;  I do not ask to see The distant scene - one step enough for me.

2.  I was not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou shouldst lead me on;  I loved to choose and see my ypath;  but now Lead Thou me on!  I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will;  remember no past years.

3.   So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still Will lead me on, O'er moor and fen, o'er cra and torent, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angel faces smile;  Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile! 

A special thanks to "Chet Valley Churches" for sharing this with us!

A special thanks to "Audrey Assad" for sharing this with us!

Other Hymns on this blog:

The Gate Ajar for Me

How Firm A Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord

Draw Thou My Soul, O Christ

I Sing the Praise of Love Unbounded

I Am Praying for You

Saved by Grace

Immortal Love, Forever Full

God Himself Is With Us

Here at Thy Table, Lord

Come To The Savior

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You might be interested in viewing this video:

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"Prayer Basics & 8 Ways To Find Answers"