Counting Every Blessing - Rend Collective - Guests Mike & Marc - S05.E10

<p>We are back with a Rend Collective song! Joined by Mike Tapper and Marc Jolicoeur of Series 5, Episode 9 and the study of worship music longevity "Worship at the Speed of Sound", our hosts take a look at the lyrics of Counting Every Blessing. Our conversation explores the use of different verb tenses for the different states of the human experience in salvation, and we praise the song for actually naming blessings to be counted! There is a small square off about the phrase "good to me" (and a look back at Good, Good Father by Chris Tomlin). Looking at the practice of borrowing verbiage from classic hymns, we discuss a possible trend in modern worship music to recall and reclaim feelings of tradition in the 21st century.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82b0Tiy0ykk</p> <p>Song story: https://www.jubileecast.com/articles/19855/20180810/rend-collective-earns-second-consecutive-top-10-with-counting-every-blessing.htm</p> <p>Lyrics:</p> <p>I was blind, now I'm seeing in colour</p> <p>I was dead, now I'm living forever</p> <p>I had failed, but You were my Redeemer</p> <p>I've been blessed beyond all measure</p> <p><br></p> <p>I was lost, now I'm found by the Father</p> <p>I've been changed from a ruin to treasure</p> <p>I've been given a hope and a future</p> <p>I've been blessed beyond all measure</p> <p><br></p> <p>I am counting every blessing, counting every blessing</p> <p>Letting go and trusting when I cannot see</p> <p>I am counting every blessing, counting every blessing</p> <p>Surely every season You are good to me</p> <p><br></p> <p>Oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-ooh-oooh (You are good to me)</p> <p>Oh-oh-ooh, oh-oh-ooh-oooh (You are good to me)</p> <p><br></p> <p>You were there in the valley of shadows</p> <p>You were there in the depth of my sorrows</p> <p>You're my strength, my hope for tomorrow</p> <p>I've been blessed beyond all measure</p> <p><br></p> <p>Surely Your goodness pursues me</p> <p>Surely Your heart is still for me</p> <p>I will remember Your mercies all my days</p> <p>Through eve