Here I am, send me, send me.......that was a catchy little ditty, wasn't it ? As a kid, I always felt eeeeextra guilty during this song...I wished that I truly wanted to be in the ministry like all the good folks around me did. I used to say "Here I am send John send John" (John was my older brother. The neighbor kids used to call him Johnny Jehovah LOL !)
Yep, I often find myself humming or thinking about the lyrics of the Kingdom songs. But I also knew a lot of Christmas Carols by heart since childhood (still do), and I grew up as a strict Witness and never even celebrated it once. For good or for bad, Music reaches places that ordinary words don't reach.
Group singing has long been used to unite people together for religious and political work. Schools and sports teams, whip up the emotions of their supporters through use of songs, fanfare and drum beats, because music tugs at ones heartstrings and often extends to a deeply personal level. Music can unite an entire generation of people because it often represents the aspirations, heartbreaks, achievements and goals of a people living at a specific time period. Regardless of where one lives or what religion one is, humans seem to have a need to express their lifes experiences through music. It shouldn't suprise any one of us that these songs pop up in our minds still. I don't think anyone should assign any significance to the fact that this happens though. I'm sure those, still alive, who belonged to the Hitler Youth, can still remember the songs they sang in their ralleys and how these songs made them swell with pride and may still bring up warm and fuzzy memories for them when they think about them today. We often look back to the past with warmer feelings than what we actually experienced.
