You’ve probably heard this well-known hymn in praise of the vast world of nature that God created. Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister, wrote the lyrics as a 16-stanza poem. It was first published in 1901, after his death.
In 1915, Franklin L. Sheppard chose 3 verses for the hymn and set them to the tune “Terra Beata,” meaning “Blessed Earth” in Latin.
Please enjoy my lyre arrangement, and feel free to download and share the mp3!
Sing praises to the Christ within!
The Life and Consciousness you are,
Eternal Love in which you live.
Sing praises to the Christ within!
No matter what and where you’ve been,
Your Spirit is the One and All.
Sing praises to the Christ within!
The Life and Consciousness you are!
A Metaphysical Triolet for Palm Sunday and NaPoWriMo day 5.
Here’s a fun song on ukulele. It’s fitting for today, even though I wrote it during Advent in 2016. Enjoy!
Here are 4 original songs I posted when I wrote them. Two are definitely Palm Sunday offerings, while the other two are a little more obscure. “Love Is a Coconut” is a fun song about the one thing that opens and lifts hearts or anything else–love. “So It Goes” is a song about time . Good times, bad times, in between times, time is a constant, and it constantly passes! Something we’d do well to remember right now. Please enjoy these tunes, and have a blessed and peaceful Palm Sunday!
via Off Course
A poet is the face of every poem,
And words reflect the surface on the page.
We’re missing all the stuff of life it comes from;
The words are masks the poet wears on stage.
Disguises, good or bad, of hearts so aching
And minds that pray the next word is a cure.
When glass facades grow thin enough for breaking,
I promise you the pieces hide still more.
From thoughts so pure or lifetimes interrupted,
We read the lines of laughter and of tears.
Some ramble on while others end abruptly,
And who are we to judge what work appears?
Of all our hellish hats and worried ways,
The mirror of our poetry is safe!
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A poet’s poem, a Sonnet for day 4 of NaPoWriMo!
Music can find you wherever you are
And carry you places, some near and some far
To histories, cultures, to planets and stars!
For Music can find you wherever you are!
Music can touch you however you feel
And lead you to know you are valued and real.
Without judgment or labels, the comfort can heal!
For Music can touch you however you feel!
Music can see you whatever is wrong,
Encouraging you through a message in song
And taking your hand because you do belong!
O Music can see you whatever is wrong!
Music is Spirit, of All and of One,
Creating and sharing our gifts from Above:
The depths of compassion, of peace, hope and love!
For Music is Spirit, of All and of One!
So let it transport you from Was to Will Be,
And let the I Am be your nature so free.
Your soul is a song, and your Music is key!
So let it transport you from Was to Will Be!
via Poetry
Acrostic on C Major Scale
Creative living is the key to life
Delighting in the special path you take
Emotions, effort, energy, or strife
Fulfillment of your goals despite mistakes
Go on, in grace and gratitude to strive
Amazing, awesome gifts are all your own
Bring balance with the best you have inside
Creating body, mind, and soul a home!
I’ve had so many bad cups of coffee;
That would surely put most people off it.
I’m accepting the fact,
For I now drink it black.
And the up-side? That makes it less costly!
This Limerick makes up for the poem I didn’t write yesterday. Why didn’t I? Because I was trying to get a supermarket delivery time before the 14th! Yes, a time less than 2 weeks from now! This wasn’t possible, and the 14th it is. I thought one benefit of having delivery service was timeliness. Apparently not!
This is on top of the other restrictions. Two cases of water per customer. A third of the items I usually order (not extras, mind you, but my usual items in usual quantities) are out of stock. Item substitutions are suspended until further notice. I.e. if the brand you chose isn’t in stock, instead of receiving a price-equivalent item, you get nothing. But you don’t know that until the delivery day, and can’t modify the order to choose something else. There’s also holiday time in between when there are no deliveries at all.
Now add explaining all this several times to my husband, and hearing him complain for the next two weeks. So, this is my life now?
Anyway, if you have coffee, food, and other essentials, and/or you can get what you need in a reasonable and timely manner, please be grateful! And help someone else if you have the nerve. Because it still takes some of us several hours to accomplish (if you can call it that) a seemingly simple, everyday task.
And do I really have to say this? Please, please don’t buy in excess! I guarantee you at some future time, the news will be broadcasting how much food people threw away because, guess what? they hoarded more than they needed, when they could have been sharing it with someone less equipped than they are!
Mystical Strings 
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