Psalm 65; Philippians 4:4-9 “Remember,” the gentle, soft-spoken Buddhist monk began, “last time I asked you to practice focusing your awareness on your lustful thoughts. Did you notice your lustful thoughts this week?” I looked across the half-circle of meditation students and saw the startled faces of two newcomers. I imagined what they might have […]
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With Love and the Will to Trust
Ephesians 4:1-6; John 7:37-38 This is the sound of one voice– one spirit, one voice: the sound of one who makes a choice…. What is the choice about which Nicola sings? I don’t know what the Wailin’ Jenny’s had in mind; I will share with you how I hear these words, especially as they illuminate […]
Singing, Soaring Spirit
I Corinthians 12:4-26; Genesis 2:4b-7 It is all about air–breath, wind. It is all about the intentional, focused movement of air to create a sound. It is such a gift this morning to have our guest musicians with us. With the exception of the timpanist, these musicians make music by focusing their breath, by exhaling […]
Steinway of Grace
They were all under the direction of their father for the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. I Chronicles 25:6 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. […]