When God dips His love in my heart
When God dips His pen of love in my heart
And He writes my soul a message He wants me to know
His spirit all divine, fills a sinful soul of mine
When God dips His love in my heart
Well, I said I wouldn't tell it to a livin' soul
How He brought salvation and He made me whole
But I found I couldn't hide such a love as Jesus did impart
Well, He made me laugh and He made me cry
Set my sinful soul on fire (Hallelujah)
When God dips His love in my heart
Well, sometimes though the way is dreary, dark and cold
And some unburdened sorrow keeps me from the goal
I go to God in prayer, I can always find Him there
To whisper sweet peace in my soul
Well, I said I wouldn't tell it to a livin' soul
How He brought salvation and He made me whole
But I found I couldn't hide such a love as Jesus did impart
Well, He made me laugh and He made me cry
Set my sinful soul on fire (Hallelujah)
When God dips His love in my heart
He walked up every step of Calvary's rugged way
And He gave His life completely to bring a better day
My life was steeped in sin, but in love He took me in
His blood washed away every stain
Well, I said I wouldn't tell it to a livin' soul
How He brought salvation and He made me whole
But I found I couldn't hide such a love as Jesus did impart
Well, he made me laugh and He made me cry
Set my sinful soul on fire (Hallelujah)
When God dips His love in my heart
Hallelujah, when God dips His love
His sweet love, in my heart
Nice song . . . syncopation & style reminds me of the pre-Beatles, pre-Animals, & pre-Rolling Stones era of healthy, idealistic folk music of Pete Seeger, Peter Paul & Mary, the Kingston Trio and suchlike when I was a teenager
. . ah times were less complicated then. In the initial peace & boom that followed the atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in August 1945 - hence the baby boom after that ending of the war . . . babies were born who grew up without understanding the struggle & hardship of their parents during the Great Depression & WW2.
Babies who came of age during the Vietnam War, could not stomach watching babies burnt with napalm & villages of innocent peasants being being burnt by American GI’s . . . hence Woodstock in 1969 & the counterculture. Hippies, Whole Earth Catalog, back to the land & escape from discredited Christianity . . by doing treks to ashrams in India seeking something to fill the spiritual void . . these hippies grew old and became Trump supporters 50 years later, hoping he would end forever wars of the military-industrial complex.
Excuse this ‘stream of consciousness’ flight of ideas . . . that were triggered by this wholesome & healthy family singing folk music together - as if it were in the 1950’s - praising their God of Love.
After the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, many philosophers of the time lost their faith in a God of Love.
It's the same God evoked by Christian Zionist Peter Hegseth - US Secretary of War - to reign bombs on Iran without mercy,
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The philosophical impact of the Lisbon Earthquake. . . from Google AI
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The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which occurred on All Saints' Day, caused widespread devastation and prompted a massive philosophical shift in Europe regarding the problem of evil, questioning the existence of a benevolent, loving God.
The key thinkers who lived at the end of the 18th century and questioned theodicy (the justification of God) in response to the disaster were:
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet): He was the most vocal critic of "philosophical optimism" after the earthquake. He argued that a benevolent God would not permit such widespread destruction of innocents, mocking the idea that "all is for the best". His views were famously expressed in Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (1756) and his novel Candide (1759), where he challenged the concept of a loving Creator in a world filled with senseless suffering.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: In his Letter to Voltaire on the Lisbon Earthquake (1756), Rousseau disagreed with Voltaire’s pessimism and his direct attack on Providence, but he still grappled with the implications. Rousseau famously countered that the catastrophe was largely caused by humans choosing to live in dense cities and tall buildings rather than being a direct punishment from God.
Immanuel Kant: Though a young philosopher at the time, Kant wrote three essays in 1756 attempting to explain the earthquake through natural, physical causes rather than divine wrath. By focusing on scientific rather than metaphysical explanations, Kant's work contributed to the philosophical movement that questioned the religious, moralized interpretation of natural disasters.
The Key Philosophical Target: Optimism
The philosophers of the late 18th century were specifically reacting against the "philosophical optimism" popularized earlier by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope, who argued that despite appearing evil, this world was still the "best of all possible worlds". The earthquake provided the evidence that forced a decline in this doctrine.
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