Sabbath Day Six - A Hymn for All Time

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🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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For the men, women, and children escaping slavery through the Underground Railroad, spirituals like Wade in the Water carried both coded messages of survival and songs of hope. For generations, God’s people have turned to song to remember who He is. In this final episode, we reflect on how Sabbath ends with remembering and rejoicing—lifting our eyes to the God who has always been our help.

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0:00.0	The cold was bitter this time of year. Still, the longer nights meant she could cover more
0:09.5	ground, keeping her pursuers at a distance. The woman paused, giving the small group behind
0:18.2	her a second to rest. Their breath freezing in the frigid air
0:22.5	as they pulled the few blankets they had tighter around themselves.
0:28.3	Each of them stared back at her,
0:31.1	their eyes wide and ear straining against the sound of the wind through the trees.
0:38.3	The woman they eventually would call Moses took a moment
0:41.3	and then calmly repeated the words she had been telling them for two days.
0:46.3	If you hear the dogs, keep going.
0:50.3	If you see torches in the woods, keep going.
0:58.1	If they're shouting after you, keep going.
1:00.6	Don't ever stop.
1:02.1	Keep going.
1:06.5	If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
1:13.6	And then, looking at each of them, she quietly began to hum. Wade in the water.
1:16.6	Wade in the water, children.
1:20.6	Weighed in the water.
1:23.6	Weighed in the water. God's going to trouble in the water. No one knows who wrote Wade in the Water
1:43.7	recorded this version of the spiritual in 1925,
1:47.3	the hymns history had already been soaked in 70 years of struggle, bloodshed, and freedom.
1:55.8	Used as a way to remind escaping slaves to use the river as a way to hide their scent from slave
2:01.1	catchers' dogs.
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