I was thinking about songs from West Side Story while coming up with a caption for this post. I began humming the song Maria by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim and this is what I came up with.
John Owen
I just read a book by John Owen
And suddenly my sin will never be the same to me
John Owen
It's hard to read dudes like John Owen
But paperbacks abridged are helpful for the folks like me
John Owen
Take your time and digest it slowly
Feed your soul as your pride is made lowly
John Owen
The great theologian, John Owen
The best book on mortification I ever read
John Owen
I just read a book by John Owen
And suddenly my sin will never be the same to me
John Owen
It's hard to read dudes like John Owen
But paperbacks abridged are helpful for the folks like me
John Owen
Take your time and digest it slowly
Feed your soul as your pride is made lowly
John Owen
The great theologian, John Owen
The best book on mortification I ever read
John Owen
No disrepect is meant. The Mortification of Sin is one of the books that changed my life. This just shows how strange my mind works.
Here is the original from the 1961 musical:
