text: have any of you ever journaled a hymn. makes you really think of it's mesage. try it.? i lost my voice for awhile (it is back again but no longer sing public functions as it has changed with age., so i read the hymns and vs by vs and chorus by chorus, write down what it is saying, at least to me. it is fun, interesting,uplifting,inovative, challanging and i found one with the words on one page and the composer and lyrisit on the opposite=helps understand why they wrote the hymns and often under dire circumstances. sounds like a really neat idea. i sometimes print out the words to hymns and just read them before prayer.