Hunger And Thirst (feat. David Weeks)

I don't know if you've ever fed a bachelor farmer. It's pretty gratifying. Who is more appreciative than a hard working man who cooks for himself? David Weeks is a bachelor farmer whose presence at our table is always more of a blessing to us than it is to him. When our kids heard that David had written a song entitled "Hunger and Thirst," one growing boy was horrified. "Hunger and Thirst?" he cried in dismay, "I guess it's time to get him over here for dinner again!" This song comes from a rhubarb pie powered album of wonderful, traditional Hebrew songs recorded for Alef Press' Biblical Hebrew homeschool curriculum. In the course of recording it, "Hunger and Thirst" flowed from David's guitar without lyrics. David was writing songs again after some sorrowful times without much music through which he has walked because he does hunger for righteousness. So Matthew 5:6 was suggested to him: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." In Hebrew, the words fit the music hand in glove. (They don't do badly in English, either. Try "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled," if you like.) The lyrics in Hebrew are אשׁרי הרעבים והצּמאים לצּדקה כּי הם ישׂבּעוּ. "Hunger and Thirst" expresses from the heart both the longing and firm faith of Jesus' words from the Sermon on the Mount. Hunger on.