Category archive: Songs for Meditation
The One Who Sings Through Me….
The Music Director of a congregation where I’ve shared my music and led services is planning a Hymn Sing, featuring the music of UU composers. She asked me to write something about my music, to share in the program: “Singing is my spiritual practice, an intentional response to Life. Sometimes the response is silence, listening…
Dearest One
What do you call God? After years pretending not to notice the Presence that is everywhere, the yearning for that most profound relationship outweighed my objections. A term of endearment emerged: “Dearest One!” – for God, Mystery, Presence, partner, family, companions in meditation. And yet no term is big enough for the love we embody:…
Be Still and Know
When I was eight, sitting still, waiting for school assembly to begin, marveling at sunlight playing on the skin of my arm, I heard an inner voice, “The Christ is within.” “Of course it is!” replied the Self-assurance of the child. Years later, when I heard these words from Psalm 46:10, I felt them ringing…
All My Relations, Singing!
After a near-death experience (1975) and my parents’ deaths (1979, 1982), I’ve been drawn to the threshold between life and death and to meditative states to calm the mind/body and help us let go. How do we cut through the western habit of seeing the body as a pesky object to subdue? Through the power…