Singing Along the Journey

Beatitudes

Blessed are…

A week ago, I was supposed to fill in for Pastor Amy and lead the discussion in our Wednesday Night Words Bible Study while she was out of town, but 2011's wacky weird weather had other ideas -- that turned out to be the day of  the-wettest-ever-snowfall and the commute-beyond-all-description for so many people (remember the pictures of 100's of abandoned cars on the GW Parkway?).  It turned out to be a very good thing that we cancelled our get-together.  So I did the next best thing and distributed my outline to the group...and promised to write a little bit about Matthew 5:4, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they…
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The soundtrack of…

And now, for something totally different. I will admit that I am experimenting right now with different types of writing -- I've already mentioned the need I feel to learn to address the primary sources rather than the secondary.  I particularly feel this need when working with pieces of music for performance that relate directly to the lectionary text of the day.  So, all last week, I worked on practicing  just that by addressing the text of one of the songs that I sang last Sunday in church.  That text was drawn from Psalm 27, as set by Frances Allitsen in the sacred parlor room classic, "The Lord is My Light." For a three-minute-long…
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Blessed are…

A week ago, I was supposed to fill in for Pastor Amy and lead the discussion in our Wednesday Night Words Bible Study while she was out of town, but 2011's wacky weird weather had other ideas -- that turned out to be the day of  the-wettest-ever-snowfall and the commute-beyond-all-description for so many people (remember the pictures of 100's of abandoned cars on the GW Parkway?).  It turned out to be a very good thing that we cancelled our get-together.  So I did the next best thing and distributed my outline to the group...and promised to write a little bit about Matthew 5:4, "Blessed are those who mourn, for they…
Read More

The soundtrack of…

And now, for something totally different. I will admit that I am experimenting right now with different types of writing -- I've already mentioned the need I feel to learn to address the primary sources rather than the secondary.  I particularly feel this need when working with pieces of music for performance that relate directly to the lectionary text of the day.  So, all last week, I worked on practicing  just that by addressing the text of one of the songs that I sang last Sunday in church.  That text was drawn from Psalm 27, as set by Frances Allitsen in the sacred parlor room classic, "The Lord is My Light." For a three-minute-long…
Read More