Author: Molly Tulkki

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the August 11th edition of Sounds of Home!

There Is a Balm in Gilead

Refrain:
There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole;
there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul.

Sometimes I feel discouraged and think my work’s in vain,
but then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again. Refrain

If you cannot preach like Peter, if you cannot pray like Paul,
you can tell the love of Jesus and say, “He died for all.” Refrain

Don’t ever be discouraged, for Jesus is your friend;
and if you lack for knowledge, he’ll ne’er refuse to lend. Refrain

Text: African American spiritual
Music: African American spiritual; alternative acc. hymnal version

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How Can Mend a Broken Heart by the Bee Gees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QUX8fJ40RA

How Quickly Your Heart Mends by Courtney Marie Andrews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjuDrInUKXk

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “trail”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and email it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, August 17th

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Also accepting responses for these upcoming themes —

“table”
“swing”

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the August 4th edition of Sounds of Home!

The Tiller

I am a tiller of the soil, a farmer frank and plain;
I love my home, its life and toil, its fields and wooded lane.
There countless flowers are growing in beauty rich and rare;
Mine is the brooklet flowing, and mine the fragrant air.

I heard from youth the cheerful choirs of birds above the moor;
they taught me when my heart desires on wings of song to soar.
Behind the plow and harrow and ringing scythe I sing,
Till wood and valley narrow with cheerful echoes ring.

But when the busy day is spent, and sunset paints the west;
My mind refreshed, my heart content, midst lovèd ones I rest.
And in my home-life ever my spirit finds rebirth,
and I will change it never with any man on earth.

Text: Mads Hansen, trans. by J.C. Aaberg
Music: Danish, composer unknown

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “mend”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and email it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, August 10th

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Also accepting responses for these upcoming themes —

“trail”
“table”

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the July 28th edition of Sounds of Home!

Come, Skylark

Come, skylark, sing to me your merry melody!
As daylight grows I long to hear you singing
as if with pure delight, above, far out of sight
a thousand little silver bells were ringing.

You roam not far and wide, a killer, eagle eyed;
not proud as peacocks, cunning as the raven,
but shy and simply dress up from your hidden nest
your flight goes straight and true from earth to heaven.

From dizzy heights again you to your nest descend
to mate and brood, your happiness and treasure.
You are wholeheartedly what you were meant to be
and therefore is your life so full of pleasure.

My bird of faith, you sing to me a song of spring
while winter’s snow is still upon the branches;
your ringing carol peals above the empty fields
proclaiming: springtime bright and warm advances!

Teach me your joyful song of hope, triumphant, strong,
that I, like you, may drive out doubt and sadness!
Teach me, like you, to see that life is victory,
that Lenten gloom must yield to Easter gladness!

Text: Chr. Richardt; trans. by S.D. Rodholm
Music: Joseph Glæser

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Poems by Emily Dickinson

Bee! I’m expecting you!
Was saying Yesterday
To Somebody you know
That you were due —

The Frogs got Home last Week —
Are settled, and at work —
Birds, mostly back —
The Clover warm and thick —

You’ll get my Letter by
The seventeenth; Reply
Or better, be with me —
Yours, Fly.

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The Butterfly in honored Dust
Assuredly will Lie
But none will pass the Catacomb
So chastened as the Fly –

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “relish”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and email it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, August 3rd

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Also accepting responses for these upcoming themes —

“mend”
“trail”

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the July 21st edition of Sounds of Home!

Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound

Amazing grace! – how sweet the sound — that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see.

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed!

Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come;
’tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me; his word my hope secures;
he will my shield and portion be as long as life endures.

ElW #779, vs. 1-4
Text: John Newton
Music: W. Walker, Southern Harmony; arr. Edwin O. Excell

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “fly”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and email it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, July 27th

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Also accepting responses for these upcoming themes —

“relish”
“mend”

**Sounds of Home is on break this week – July 14th.**
Regular programming will resume again July 21st.

Take a listen back down Sounds of Home lane, or catch up on your listening here!
https://www.westdenmark.org/category/sounds-of-home/

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “found”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and email it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, July 20th

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the July 7th edition of Sounds of Home!

Simple Gifts

‘Tis a gift to be simple, ’tis a gift to be free
‘Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained, to bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed.
To turn, turn, will be our delight, ’till by turning, turning, we come ’round right.

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**Sounds of Home will be taking a break the week of July 14th.**
Programing will resume again July 21st.

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “found”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and email it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday, July 20th.

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the June 30th edition of Sounds of Home!

Vossevangen

‘Tis Vossevangen that I will choose, and live among the hills of clover;
There all the boys wear their polished shoes, with little jacket buttons silvered over.
Be-ribboned girls dancing there are found, their braids are reaching almost to the ground;
Yes, it is true, when I tell you, ’tis beautiful in Vossevangen!

Upon the hillside are berries sweet, ‘mid hazel brush, oaks and birches;
The little goats leap with nimble feet, the river through the valley rushes.
The smell of earth and the sigh of trees, and songs of birds float upon the breeze.
Yes, it is true, when I tell you, ’tis beautiful in Vossevangen!

Along the water the willows grow; a fairy lives over yonder.
The summer days never seem to slow, for ev’ry hour is filled with wonder.
The waters murmur, the fairy sings; and from a thrush a bell-like greeting rings.
Yes, it is true, when I tell you, ’tis beautiful in Vossevangen!

Text: Carsen Hauch, composite translation
Music: N.P. Hillebrand

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “imagine”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and send it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday night, July 6th.

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Sounds of Home will be taking a break the week of July 14th.
Programing will resume again July 21st.

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the June 23rd edition of Sounds of Home!

We Hike Over Dew-Freshened Hills

We hike over dew freshened hills, hills, hills,
Like emeralds they sparkle in the rills, rills, rills,
We banish ev’ry care, and with songs we fill the air
As we hike over dew freshened hills.

The song of the forest is strong, strong, strong,
It peals out like an organ loud and long, long, long,
And all our daily fretting we soon will be forgetting
As we join in the lilt of the song.

The old and the wise they may laugh, laugh, laugh,
So much of our knowledge is but chaff, chaff, chaff.
But who would then be singing to Spring, and praises bringing,
If we had their wisdom by half.

We happily hike hand in hand, hand, hand,
And go in search of youth’s eternal land, land, land.
The daily burdens lighten, a world we seek to brighten,
We wander in quest of that land.

Text: O. Thunmann, trans. by Marius Krog
Music: Swedish Folk Melody

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One Little Word
(Unrequited Love through the Seasons)

by Henrik Strandskov
to the tune of En Sol På Fönsterrutan

The leaves lay thick and brittle,
October growing old;
How could one word – so little —
Such hurt and heartache hold?

When nights were cold and bitter,
I’d walk out in the snow;
The icy starts aglitter,
The only light I’d know.

I walked in springtime meadows,
A million flowers I passed,
But all I saw were shadows
Upon the blades of grass.

The summer birds above me
Sing sweetly all day long;
But, oh, if you still loved me,
I’d never need their song.

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “leap”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and send it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Monday night, June 29th.

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The theme for July 7th is “imagine”
Deadline for submissions is Monday night, July 6th.

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the June 16th edition of Sounds of Home!

I Am the Light of the World

Refrain:
“I am the light of the world! You people come and follow me!”
If you follow and love you’ll learn the mystery of what you were meant to do and be.

When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone,
When the sages and the shepherds have found their way home,
the work of Christmas is begun: Refrain

To find the lost and lonely one, to heal the broken soul with love,
To feed the hungry children with warmth and good food,
To feel the earth below, the sky above! Refrain

To free the prisoner from all chains, to make the powerful care,
To rebuild the nations with strength of good will,
to see all God’s children everywhere! Refrain

To bring hope to every task you do, to dance at a baby’s new birth,
To make music in…. an old person’s heart,
and sing to the colors of the earth! Refrain

Music: Jim Strathdee
Text: Jim Strathdee, based on a poem by Howard Thurman

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “glass”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and send it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Sunday night, June 21st.

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The theme for June 30th is “leap”
Deadline for submissions is Sunday night, June 28th.

Tuesdays at 2pm
Welcome to the June 9th edition of Sounds of Home!

You Have Come Down to the Lakeshore vs. 1, 3
Tú has venido a la orilla

You have come down to the lakeshore seeking neither the wise nor the wealthy,
but only asking for me to follow.
Sweet Lord, you have looked into my eyes; kindly smiling, you’ve called out my name….
On the sand I have abandoned my small boat;
now with you, I will seek other seas.

You need my hands, my exhaustion, working love for the rest of the weary —
a love that’s willing to go on loving.
Sweet Lord, you have looked into my eyes; kindly smiling, you’ve called out my name….
On the sand I have abandoned my small boat;
now with you, I will seek other seas.

Text: Cesáreo Gabaráin; tr. Madeleine Forell Marshall
Music: Cesáreo Gabaráin

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Like to lend your voice?
Our upcoming theme is “yellow”

If you have a response to this theme – whether a story or memory, original piece of writing or poetry, music, radio drama, or one-liner – the sky’s the limit – between 5 seconds and 5 minutes in length – or if you would like to guest host or lead a song to sing together — we’re eager to hear from you!

To submit a response, please make an audio recording and send it to Molly,
or send in a written response to be read aloud on the program.

Contact Molly at tulkmo01@luther.edu for information and submissions.
Deadline for submissions is Sunday night, June 14th.

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The theme for June 23rd is “glass”
Deadline for submissions is Sunday night, June 21st.