Comments on: Hymn of Promise http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/ Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:24:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 By: Noriko Uematsu http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-806496 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:36:35 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-806496 My friend just came back from Manila and gave me a souvenir. It is a cloth of embroidery with beautiful eggs (cocoons). Then I remembered this wonderful Hymn of Promise. I wonder a butterfly comes from a cocoon, which may produce any thread like silk. But it is beautiful…

]]> By: Gene http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-259305 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:22:49 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-259305 I’d never heard this hymn before my wife asked for it at her funeral. We sang it Sunday. It is beautiful and the poetry outweighs the science. After all, the Sun does not “rise” in the east and purple montains rise above grain plains, not fruited ones.

]]> By: frkw2004 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-238011 Wed, 13 May 2009 13:30:01 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-238011 hello,

some kinds of butterfly make cocoons. For example,Parnassius glacialis

]]> By: Dr. L http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-231401 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:41:55 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-231401 Think of the cocoon reference as poetic license. Don’t miss the forest through the trees.

]]> By: carol http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-181773 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:41:06 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-181773 Catherine, I think you have the right attitude. “So what if it’s not scientifically correct.” The meaning and symbolism is comforting and inspiring. I am sorry for the loss of your father.

]]> By: Catherine http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-181236 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:47:30 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-181236 Please don’t ruin the beauty of this song for the rest of us. This will be sung at my father’s funeral today. So what if it’s not scientifically correct. The meaning of the rest of the song is so comforting. I refuse to get hung up in details. I doubt that God will either. (I can appreciate your thinking, though . . . God made us all different. Take care)

]]> By: carol http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-105388 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:43:57 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-105388 Scientifically, a butterfly coming from a “cocoon” is incorrect. However, the cocoon/butterfly relationship is firmly ingrained in literature and general public knowledge. I doubt anyone asking for authors to be correct will change it. Dom Deluis wrote a book about a butterfly emerging from a cocoon… there was songs, poems… Oh well.

]]> By: Ruth Rougeux http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-105304 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:00:13 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-105304 What about the book the very hungry caterpillar who turned into a beautiful butterfly. He build a small house,called a cocoon, around himself. We are God’s children and one day will be set free

]]> By: carol http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-91698 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:38:09 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-91698 I think you missed my point. The song is beautiful and I understand the symbolism in it – the metaphors. I am distracted, however, by the incorrect reference to a butterfly coming from a cocoon. A butterfly comes from a chrysalis. A moth comes from a cocoon. A cocoon is formed from spun thread. A chrysalis is formed when the butterfly caterpillar sheds its skin for the final time, and a hardened outer covering forms to cover the changing pupa inside. The hymn is beautiful. I just wish that the writer had taken the time to make sure his/her metaphors were correct. Butterflies DON’T come from cocoons.

]]> By: Ruth Rougeux http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-91590 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:44:22 +0000 http://themediansib.com/2007/11/09/hymn-of-promise/#comment-91590 Hi,
Stop and think about the butterfly when it forms it is an ugly thing but when it leaves the cocoon it is a beautiful butterfly. I have a reference that it means here on earth is not the greatest but when we leave we are set free and it will be a beautiful, as the butterfly. I first heard this song at my nephews furneral. Which I know by this song he is going to be with the Lord. Wouldn’t change anything about it. IT IS JUST BEAUTIFUL

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