
I once was lost but now I’m found.
Was blind, but now I see.
“Amazing Grace”
I first heard an a capella version of “Amazing Grace” by Meryl Streep at the end of the movie Silkwood (1983). I fell in love with it. I don’t know why. I imagine the lyrics touched my soul in a way I couldn’t yet understand, not having converted to Christianity; besides which I was just a child.
I’m not sure why I waited this long to cover this song in the Hymn-Theology series, perhaps because the lyrics resonate with my testimony. 2013 marks my twenty-first year as a Christian and it is hard to believe that God has brought me so far from what was my statistical fate. Continue reading



