{"id":1991,"date":"2020-02-05T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:01:41","slug":"mzee-chose-hymn-to-theme-his-send-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/mzee-chose-hymn-to-theme-his-send-off","title":{"rendered":"Mzee chose hymn to theme his send-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Daniel arap Moi chose the song he would love to be sang at his funeral,\u00a0<span class=\"italic\">The Standard<\/span>\u00a0can reveal.While launching his music book in 2010, Moi choose\u00a0\u2018Forever with the Lord\u2019, a powerful song in the\u00a0<span class=\"italic\">Golden Bells<\/span>, to be played when he would finally be laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFormer President Moi loved music and in 2010 when he was launching a music book, he told me \u2018Forever with the Lord\u2019 is a good song. \u2018You will sing this song the time I will rest\u2019,\u201d Fred Ngala, the then chair of Presidential Music Commission and the current Director of Music at Kabarak University, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Crosshead\"><strong>Love for music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moi\u2019s love for music, particularly hymns, according to Prof Ngala, remained immeasurable.He cherished sweet melodies and had a soft spot for hymns. Four hymns always topped his favourite list.<\/p>\n<p>They include \u2018Amazing Love\u2019, \u2018Take time to be Holy\u2019.\u201cHe loved hymns. At one time, he told me he believed hymns were well constructed and had deep theology and full of doctrinal content. There was no way one could separate the former president and music, and he used a lot of resources to promote the music industry,\u201d said Ngala.<\/p>\n<p>And just as a rising sun sets, Moi seemed to have picked the powerful hymn that talks of end of life and eternity.\u201cHere in the body pent, Absent from Him, I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent. A day\u2019s march nearer home,\u201d the lyrics read in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when my dying breath shall rend the veil in twain, By death I shall escape from death&#8230; And life eternal gain,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Daniel arap Moi chose the song he would love to be sang at his funeral,\u00a0The Standard\u00a0can reveal.While launching his music book in 2010, Moi choose\u00a0\u2018Forever with the Lord\u2019, a powerful song in the\u00a0Golden Bells, to be played when he would finally be laid to rest. \u201cFormer President Moi loved music and in 2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[1146,1145,1147],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-forever-with-the-lord","tag-former-president-daniel-arap-moi","tag-golden-bells"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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