A few days ago I posted The Blessing - UK, a wonderful “virtual” musical production of a song based on the traditional blessing in Numbers 6:24-26.
I didn’t realize that video was just one part of a global viral sensation...the good kind of viral.
I since watched this extended interview about the making of the video - When worship goes viral - Tim Hughes
Curious about Hughes’s reference to someone “in the States” who wrote the song, I searched and found what I think is the first version of the song, recorded by the couple who wrote it, in early March of this year. It tugs my heart a bit that this was one of the last times a group this size came together for worship, or anything else, in months.
The Blessing with Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes
While their recording is powerful, worship as an emotional music event is not something that all Christians appreciate. I can enjoy it on some levels but balk when it feels more like a rock concert than a worship event. People have very different ideas of where to draw the line between worship and emotionalism.
But the song takes on an whole new meaning when performed by different singers in different locations. It becomes greater than the sum of its parts, and art is created as well as a unique, worshipful experience for the observer/participant.
The earliest community I’ve found who recorded the song this way is in Pittsburg.
The Pittsburgh Blessing
Then South Africa,
The Blessing - South Africa
Latin America!
La Bendicion Latino America
There are more that I will add in a future post, but this already has so many links that it will cover three days of Easter.
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