I fear we hear Amazing Grace too much. But reading the words does it for me. Thanks.

No doubt it is the inevitable contempt of familiarity. Losing this reaction to extreme familiarity takes advanced age, I find.

One thing that strikes me about Amazing Grace as music is its pentatonic nature. Man is hardwired to respond to pentatonic melodies beyond the influence of culture, and the traditional context for the playing of the tune is very strongly within our Western culture and a Christian worldview.

Interesting.

Some would attribute this to inspiration from the Deity.