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Learning Prayer from the Clock Man
If you’re like me, then you can imagine your Dad, a Grandfather Clock repair man, and the many clocks a Grandfather Clock repair man would have around his house. Once when my brother and I were little, we counted the clocks in our house and stopped at around 30 or so. Grandfather clocks and their sounds remind me of home. My dad wrote this on his blog awhile ago and I thought I’d share it.
My business is repairing or setting up grandfather clocks.
I tune the chimes,carefully for bad notes and making the corrections as needed.
All grandfather clocks play Westminster chimes,some play 3 chimes.
The are reasons for all the chimes,some are religious,some are from church bells and some are taken from children’s nursery rimes.
Westminster chimes are the most popular,made famous by Big Ben in London.
However the chimes were first set into the tower at University Church, St. Mary’s the Great, in Cambridge, England.
The actual words are:
Lord, through this hour,
Be Thou our guide
So,by thy power
No foot shall slide
Even for the non religious people who have clocks in their homes,they are hearing a prayer every quarter hour.
Next time you hear a chiming clock or church bell, take it as a call to prayer. Take the moment to say this simple prayer and give your heart the chance to be reconnected to God.
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Reading the above makes me think that I need to wind the grandfather clock in our living room, which plays Westminster Chimes. It was built from a kit by my late father and has not been wound since my father passed away nearly five years ago – I have not had the heart to start it again. But maybe by doing so, it will bring me closer to God and to my father. Had no idea that the Westminster Chimes actually had words to them. What beautiful pieces of writing – both yours and your father’s!!! In fact, your father once worked on this clock. He and I grew up next store to each other in Roseland.
Janis, that makes me all sniffely. Thank you so much for telling me that. My Dad is one special guy!