When dangers fierce your path assail

Today's hymn from Lift Every Voice and Sing struck some of our fussier parishioners as "like Sunday school." It is certainly musically and theologically pretty uncomplicated. I went from finding it a little silly, its start like something from a merry-go-round, to getting into its simplicity - especially because of the fermata in the second to last measure, which I realized (we've had a few such hymns) is a moment for high emotion. And wouldn't we love for God to take care of us right now.