Amazing Grace

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This is a song in the Mormon  Hymn Book the words

 were written by Charles Penrose about 1900 

and the music was written about 1852.  

For me it tells how the  Mormon pioneers 

must have felt seeing the Rocky Mountains

 for the very first time and knowing 

that those mountains would protect them 

from the mobs of  good Missouri  Christians 

who wanted to kill them just because they were Mormon. 

 They were leaving a land of religious freedom 

for a land where they could practice their religion 

with out fear of persecution.

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The Song Amazing Grace, for me tells how much

 the atonement of Jesus Christ has changed my life 

and how I do not deserve what he has done for me. 

 For 45 years I closed my eyes to God and Jesus Christ

 and now my eyes are open wide.  The Grace of God

 is with me and feels like a warm blanket on a cold night.