How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
We read of a place that’s called heaven,
It’s made for the pure and the free;
These truths in God’s Word He hath given,
How beautiful heaven must be.
How beautiful heaven must be,
Sweet home of the happy and free;
Fair haven of rest for the weary,
How beautiful heaven must be.
In heaven no drooping nor pining,
No wishing for elsewhere to be;
God’s light is forever there shining,
How beautiful heaven must be.
How beautiful heaven must be,
Sweet home of the happy and free;
Fair haven of rest for the weary,
How beautiful heaven must be.
The angels so sweetly are singing,
Up there by the beautiful sea;
Sweet chords from their gold harps are ringing,
How beautiful heaven must be.
How beautiful heaven must be,
Sweet home of the happy and free;
Fair haven of rest for the weary,
How beautiful heaven must be.
written by Mrs. A. S. Bridgewater
We’ve had revival at church this week. Our pastor felt led to conduct services like they were when Pap was a boy. There were two meetings each day. One at 11:00 a.m. and one at 7:00 p.m.
The church was excited about the old timey revival, but no one really knew what to expect other than the folks old enough to remember attending day services as a child.
It was wonderful. Amazing spirit filled singing and preaching at each service. My cup runneth over.
Taylor helped me figure out what to do here on the Blind Pig during revival week because I knew it would be hard to keep up with every thing: work, garden bounty, and revival. She suggested the interviews and I’m so glad she did! Not only do they need to be documented and shared, they went right along with our week of worship.
I asked Taylor yesterday if she knew what Francis’s favorite gospel song was. She said he loved “How Beautiful Heaven Must Be.” I never get tired of hearing Granny and Paul’s version so I was tickled to share it again today.
Francis has been a deacon at our church since I was a girl. Today he is mostly bed fast and doesn’t get out of the house much so he wasn’t able to attend any of the services this week, but I know he was praying for us.
Tipper
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Hi Tipper. I love to hear Granny sing.
Thanks for this song, Tipper (Paul and Granny). I love this song and it is so precious to have sweet Granny singing it all the way through. You really shared some joy and great memories with me through this song this morning. I’m glad the Revival was good. I miss having them here. Have a great week! So much love to you all from SC, Jane. (Love and prayers for you all).
What a beautiful song, Paul! I loved every bit of it. It made me smile seeing Granny again. How blessed you and your family are to have so many videos of her. So many of us who never met her still love seeing and hearing her sweet voice. May God showers his blessings down on all of you!
Oh, how my heart has been touched by the lovely words and performance of a song very dear to my heart. Hearing Granny and Paul sing together really blessed my soul. And it is so wonderful to hear how your revival was conducted. I grew up attending Camp Meeting in an open tabernacle which was located on our church grounds. We also had two services daily and lunch in the dining hall. The old tabernacle is now gone but the memories of those old time services will be with me forever. Tipper, thank you so much for your post today.
Loved hearing Granny and Paul sing this beautiful song! I think it’s one of my favorites they sang. Thank you for sharing it. I’m so glad to hear of this ole timey revival twice a day. That’s wonderful! Prayers to all mentioned.
Granny looked so beautiful in her white crocheted sweater she made. Loved hearing her sweet voice singing along with Paul. Now she’s sing with Pap in heaven’s choir. I’m hoping they have met my parents in heaven. Neither of my parents were singers, but my dad sure did love music and my mom appreciated good gospel music so they may be listening, clapping along and enjoying the heavenly choir sing that Granny and Pap are in. Well at least that’s how my mind sees heavenly things. No scripture to back it up, but then none of us could ever imagine just how wonderful heaven is, or what is actually happening in heaven right now, but it’s sure fun to imagine it. Besides, thinking about it puts a smile on my face and great joy in my heart, so that’s always a good thing.
Love this song and to hear Granny’s sweet voice made me cry but all I could think about was she is getting to see how beautiful heaven is.
Tipper, my cup runneth over just from hearing your and Katie’s testimony of the Revival you all just had. Thank you for sharing!
I cannot remember if I have heard this hymn but it is beautiful. So pretty the way Mrs. Wilson and Paul sang it together.
This is precious. I know you treasure these recordings. Thank you for sharing. Prayers for all who request intercession on this day.
I well remember two-a-day revival services, and once there was an extension into the second week, with chairs in the aisles and even outside by the open windows. Fans were from the funeral home or local merchants. No ac in those days…just fans.
Tipper, your mention of your cup running over made me think about a song my daughter told me about, one she heard for the first time last week at a funeral and one I had never heard: “Drinking from my Saucer” (because my cup has overflowed). I checked online and found that lots of people recorded it, including Johnny Cash. Have the Pressleys performed that one?
They haven’t Gene. I will look for it 🙂
Gene, I have heard of this song but have not heard anyone sing it in a long time.
Lovely, Tipper. Thank you.
I am happy you had a wonderful week at revival. I really enjoyed listening to Granny and Paul singing this morning…it was beautiful.
Prayers and Blessings, Mary Kaye. My middle name is Kaye spelled with an e also.
Beautiful reminds me so much of my Daddy singing this… Thanks so much for sharing .
I haven’t attended an old-time revival since the late 1980s, and it seems that not many churches hold them these days. How beautiful Heaven must be, especially with Granny there! Mary Kaye, I pray that the Lord will guide the doctors in performing a successful surgery and that He will watch over everything afterward.
That was so beautiful! Tears of Joy Tipper! I so loved the version your Mom and Paul did singing that beautiful hymn and just reading the words too the hymn brings you to your knees. I sure hope you all enjoyed the old timey revival this year at your church the Pastor felt I am sure it was needed at this time in our country. I am sure it was absolutely beautiful!! Prayers for all on the blog and all the families on the you tube channels. Many blessings! Love, Esme’xo ✝️️
God bless you Esme, great to see you here
Somehow I’ve always wondered about revivals, in the sense that in theory you shouldn’t need to have your faith and fervor “revived.” Ask yourself, why did it ever go dormant? I’m not really jesting here.
MAR4:18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, MAR4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
It’s the church as a body that needs the revival. The members may be dedicated and strong in their faith but are not working together as a community.
I always love hearing Granny & Paul singing, and this is a beautiful song. Granny is seeing firsthand just how beautiful heaven is!! It makes me think of another song that is similar in thought: https://youtu.be/8-Y1y_aFL_s?si=EaqhDeOSx6DtC9gD for all any of us can do right now is: “I can only imagine.”
Going to church feels a little different since Daddy Rev. Ricky Tuggle passed. The was no questioning him about missing or excuses on Sunday. Just get ready and go get a blessing. I was so blessed to grow up with Jesus in my life. That sounds holds a special place in my heart. Have a joyous Sunday!
You are blessed to have so many recordings of your mama. I have one of my mama.
We still have day service. Had a great Revival. Baptized three. Heaven will be beautiful.
As a child, we could leave school that week at the time of revival and walk up the hill to revival. Of course kids went to just get out of school, but how important they got to hear the Word. I was saved during a day revival. Church doings were very important in our community. Oh how I wish that were so today. Many of our little country churches have closed their doors. I love to hear granny and Paul sing. God bless.
You remind me of a line from “The Vacant Chair” which is, “We shall meet, but we shall miss him.” as you all have missed Francis. Guess it hits me a bit harder this week because we went to two visitations this past Thursday. As Randy has mentioned before, friends, relatives and former co-workers are leaving at a faster pace now. Have you ever heard the expression “accordin’ to nature”? I heard it as I was growing up in southeast Ky. It was a phrase elders used when talking about the tolls of time; eg, ” Accordin’ to nature, reckon I’ll be gettin’ slower and stiffer from here on out.”
We also start revival today . Ours won’t be day ad night. I have never attended one of those. The change from self-employed or self-sufficiency from the land pretty well ended that tradition. But now with core church attendance often being retired people or self-employed it can be again.
About heaven being beautiful, yesterday evening before dark we watched the night moths sipping nectar from the red and yellow four O’ clock blooms. They will not light but just fly continuously and hover to get a sip here a sip there, zip, zip. They just ignored us. Butterflies, it’s said, can see with UV light and maybe moths to. Just think what beauty we could see if, for instance, we could see in sunlight or UV at will. When the bible speaks of a new heaven and a new earth, we really just don’t know how much beauty there will be.
Ron, this week I went to the visitation and funeral of Gene Smith’s cousin. I am friends with some of his cousin’s children. On the back of the program there was an article about missing me tomorrow after I am gone. The message in this article really got to me and made me think of my wife, how I feel and of what she would say to me if she could. I intend to get someone to make me some copies of it. I will get the program later and print the title of the this article- it may have been something like “tomorrow after I am gone.” Like you, I have never been to two revival services in one day, our church revivals would be for 7 nights, one week long revival in the spring and another one in the fall. I also remember funeral home fans, no ac, the widows being raised and no screens on the windows, the ladies wearing gloves and hats. I also remember the regular preacher and visiting preacher eating dinner (noonday meal) with a different church member each day during the week of revival. I know I was an awful young boy for thinking this, but the wasp would be flying around and I would be more interested in watching the wasp than the sermon and hoping would land on a bald headed man and sting him, I could just imagine the commotion that would have caused. I hope I have outgrown that part of my life.
There are two songs I’d enjoy hearing Paul ‘s and/or the girls versions of if y’all know them. I enjoy Flat and Scruggs versions of “ When the Angels Carry me Home” and “ Cabin on the Hill”. I can barely remember our church having two daily services revival. I remember once my grandmother wore gloves to the morning service( most people don t remember women wearing gloves like that)because her hands were stained from picking blackberries and general garden work. They called on her to play the piano so there went the gloves.
Robert, another song of theirs that has stayed with me all of my life and I have even asked my son and grandsons to listen to is “Father’s Table Grace.” My parents were simple people and I am sure they prayed for me many times in my life.
One of my favorite songs. Prayers for all!
I grew up with the song in our little Baptist church in Ohio but I haven’t heard it for many years. I enjoy listening to Granny and Paul sing the beautiful old song.
We sing that hymn quite often in our church. So wonderful to sing it and what will be. A comforting hymn to me. Our revival is in a few weeks. I pray I can attend. I have abdominal surgery in two weeks. Please pray for me. Love you all
I will be praying! Hope it goes well!!
God bless you Mary Kaye, in Jesus name, God bless Mary Kaye, with deliverance from this affliction, that’s brought her to having surgery,heal her body Lord and make her well, bless her doctors with knowledge of wisdom of the situation at hand, bless all medicines, all instruments, at the hospital, bless everything Lord , for her healing in the name of Jesus, Amen
God bless Papaw Tony , Matt’s father, heal his body Lord, touch him and make him well in Jesus name I pray amen
MaryKaye, I will be praying for you.
I’ll be praying for you, MaryKaye. Our drs are always to perform amazing feats with minimally invasive procedures. I pray you will receive wonderful care with a positive outcome ♡
MaryKaye, I will keep you in my prayers.