The Kitchen Hymn at 5 AM

For forty years, Doris Whitfield sang while she cooked. Not hummed — sang. Full-throated renditions of Great Is Thy Faithfulness and Blessed Assurance that rattled the spice jars in her kitchen on Elm Street in Decatur, Georgia. Her grandchildren could hear her from the upstairs bedroom before their feet ever touched the cold floor. "Grandma, why do you sing so loud so early?"…