Stephen534
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Hallelujah! The Power of the term
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote since it was " music of largely just Hallelujahs". Today I'd like to take a moment about this issue and consider the phrase "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology originates from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it is a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the word "Hallelujah" (or sometimes "Alleluia") continues to be same: In Spanish it's "Aleluya", in Finnish and German it's "Haleluja", in French it's "Alleluia", in Estonian it's "Haleluuja", in Icelandic it's Halleluja, in Slovak it's "Aleluia" and on as well as on like that. So it is a word whose four syllables mean the same thing to many of mankind. Repeat the word almost any place in Africa plus they understand how you are feeling. Hardly any words translate that way. Consider even the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in the pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is really universal.
haleluja - I am aware of few other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. Using its four open vowels, this is a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated over and over it's the epitome word of celebration in human language. I find that after I'm writing a sacred song that i'm most filled with the spirit of God, fundamental essentials words that spill out of me repeatedly as the melodies pour through me from God. Again and again, "Hallelujah". It takes place so often i have to rewrite the lyrics into other words, otherwise the majority of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A person named George Fredric Handel tried on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute towards the birth of Christ within the finale of his "Messiah". Who has not sat in wonder on the singing of the great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded in the choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
In no way comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect in the song that opened the performance from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold-out audiences for upwards of seven years within New York City.
Let's move on with a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There is certainly music within our lives
There is music in mid-air all over
There's a spirit within our lives
As well as the music as well as the spirit are certainly one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A simple statement, though the weight and power of this amazing word it is certain the audiences knew wherever i was going with the inspirational intention of the performance. It set the spirit of the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly in to the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but a symbol with an idea. These sounds that can come away from our mouths represent concepts small or large. The word "streetcar" and that we understand specifically what you mean. Repeat the word "God" and you'll have as numerous definitions of this word as you have listeners. But repeat the word "Hallelujah" and the world is suddenly all on a single page as well as in some way feeling and understanding the light that you are experiencing. It is a word that bears repetition, no, actually, clamors for repetition, for to say it once is not enough. It ought to be repeated and repeated in the wonder of God's grace and power, love, soul, and spirit. It's the penultimate word in the human language in praise of God.
When life's at its best, within the moment when no other words suffice, for many people here on the earth, out pops the term "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and is immediately understood deeply within the soul of.
