forever

I grew up singing hymns.
It was like a course in memorizing with zero effort or even the realization that I WAS memorizing.
Hymns have fallen out of common use in most churches.
But, wonderfully, it has been a case of out of sight NOT out of mind.
The words are retrieved just when I need them and often just as I rise from sleep to waking.
This morning I woke to the triumphant words of Low in the Grave He Lay.

Up from the grave He arose
With a mighty triumph o'er His foes
He arose a victor from the dark domain
And He lives forever with His saints to reign 
He arose!
He arose!
Hallelujah, Christ arose!