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Hallelujah! The strength of the Word
haleluja - A minister I knew once questioned the depth or "the soul" of your song I wrote because it was " music of largely just Hallelujahs". Today Let me spend some time on this issue and consider the term "Hallelujah" in certain depth.
Its etymology is from the Hebrew and means "Praise Jah" or "Praise God". Oddly enough, it's a word that circumnavigates the world and spans most languages. When translated, the phrase "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 and also on like this. Therefore it is anything whose four syllables mean the same thing to many of mankind. Say the word almost anywhere in Africa plus they understand how you feel. Hardly any words translate that way. Consider the word "God". Even this word changes dramatically in their pronunciation and spelling in translation. "Hallelujah" is actually universal.
haleluja - I know of no other word in language or song that carries such joy, such celebration, such depth of spirit and soul. With its four open vowels, it is a gorgeous utterance to sing so when sung alone or surrounded by itself and repeated again and again oahu is the epitome word of celebration in human language. I've found that whenever I'm writing a sacred song and I am most filled up with the spirit of God, these are the words that spill from me repeatedly because the melodies pour through me from God. Over and over again, "Hallelujah". It takes place so frequently which i must rewrite the lyrics into simple terms, otherwise most of my songs would sing nothing but "Hallelujahs".
A man named George Fredric Handel tried on the extender to musically summarize his penultimate tribute for the birth of Christ in the finale of his "Messiah". Who has not sat in wonder on the singing of this great gift to mankind as the same word cascaded from the choir?
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
By no means comparing myself to Frederic Handel, I too used these words to great effect inside a song that opened the performance from the Jenny Burton Experience which ran to sold-out audiences for more than seven years within New York City.
Let's move on with a Hallelujah
Let's start with a Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
There's music in our lives
There is music up all over
There is a spirit inside our lives
As well as the music as well as the spirit is one
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
A simple statement, however with the body weight and power of this amazing word it is certain the audiences knew wherever we were using the inspirational goal of the performance. It set the spirit from the evening in stone and launched us cleanly and clearly to the whole world of spiritual thought.
haleluja - What is a word but a symbol for an idea. These sounds that come away from our mouths represent concepts big or small. Say the word "streetcar" and we know exactly that which you mean. Repeat the word "God" you'll also find as much definitions of this word as you have listeners. But the word "Hallelujah" and also the world is suddenly all on the same page and in a way feeling and having the light that you will be 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 is the penultimate word inside the human language in praise of God.
When every day life is at its best, inside the moment when not one other words suffice, for many people here on this planet, out pops the phrase "Hallelujah". This elegant and universal utterance captures the essence of celebration and it is immediately understood deeply in the soul of most.
