Instrument: Lady – tenor Flea ukulele
Chirp chirp chirp
Sounding cheerful in your gentle way
Chirp chirp chirp
Coming in the house as if to stay…
Chirp chirp chirp
Would you rather be in nature’s green?
Chirp chirp chirp
Heard you are, but hardly ever seen…
Chirp chirp chirp
Evening is your favorite time of day
Chirp chirp chirp
Turning on the lights puts you away…
Chirp chirp chirp
Thank you for your bright-in-darkness sound
Chirp chirp chirp
Music in creation does abound!
Singing this song on Sunday was lots of fun! I put the refrain in the bulletin, and the congregation sang along. We ran through it once and by the next time, they were pros! It’s a great feeling to hear a group singing my songs… After all, songs are meant to be shared and enjoyed!
Unfortunately, I didn’t get a good recording of us, so here’s the solo version.
Instrument: Lady – tenor Flea ukulele
1. Even in the seed you find the pumpkin
All that grows is good and all good grows
Even in the seed you find the pumpkin
God is everywhere, giving pumpkins care
Showing that where God is more good flows.
Refrain:
Be the pumpkin, shareing with your patch
Be the pumpkin, what you put out you’re gonna get back
Be the pumpkin, God within a seed
Be the pumpkin, love is all you need
2. Pumpkins are complete in their perfection
The holy spirit lives in big and small
Pumpkins are complete in their perfection
In God’s image great, every one is made
Goodness is the stuff that makes them all
Refrain:
3. Pumpkins work together with their nature
They shape the life they want and call it fine
Pumpkins work together with their nature
When somethin they don’t like comes up in their lives
They let it rot and choose a new design
Refrain:
4. Pumpkins live and flow within the present
Like a prayer they see that good is now
Pumpkins live and flow within the present
Maybe meditate on all they create
Feeling God inside them shows them how
Refrain:
5. Pumpkins live the principles of spirit
Knowing them is not enough you see
Pumpkins live the principles of spirit
And when they’re on display, in a tiny way
Pumpkins share the gifts of Unity
Refrain: (Twice)
Be the pumpkin, love is all you need!
Live like a Leaf – Meditation
This meditation with a Seven Metals singing bowl was part of my Live Like a Leaf – Metaphysical Talk and the accompanying spiritual seasons song. The meditation is a peaceful reminder to flow with your inner seasons to make the most of them.
Instrument: Lady – tenor Flea ukulele
1. Turn to the breeze in Springtime
And catch the blessing rain
Rejoyce in all the new life
In every sharing vein you offer
Be a rustling Spirit for that is why you came
To live like a leaf and be the change.
Refrain:
Rest in Winter’s darkness, knowing peace within
Feel renewed in Springtime, this is all there is
Grow all through the Summer, changing as you give
Ride the wind in Automn as like a leaf, you live
2. Support the growth of Summer
Share water, air and light
You are a natural vessel
So be a part of life’s abundance
Be a rustling Spirit for that is why you came
To live like a leaf and be the change.
Refrain:
3. In Automn show your colors
Each one a lovely ray
Be flexible and fall
As nights grow long and days grow shorter
Be a rustling Spirit for that is why you came
To live like a leaf and be the change.
Refrain:
4. In Winter you return
Within the dark of Earth
But do not be afraid
The wheel is turning, next is birth and
Be a rustling Spirit for that is why you came
To live like a leaf and be the change.
Refrain:
Ride the wind in Automn as like a leaf, you live.
A message of Fall (in the Northern hemisphere) and how we can use Fall and every season to our best advantage if we choose to “live like a leaf”. This was my talk on Sunday, October 14, 2012, at Unity of Reading. Based on the following selection by Unity co-founder Myrtle Fillmore and Ecclesiastes 3:1.
by Myrtle Fillmore
pp. 42-43
Day and Night Experience
“His delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.”–Psalms 1:2
“Day and night” does not necessarily mean twenty-four hours of time. It has reference to the daytime of the soul–when it has light, and everything seems to be going smoothly, and it can see evidence that the divine law is working; and to the nighttime of the soul–when a person has gone as far as the light of his consciousness will take him in a given direction, and when he must turn within and wait for more light.
You may not see how the law of the Lord is working for you, but it is working just as surely as the law of growth is operative during nighttime. Nighttime is necessary to the proper growth and development of plants, just as the daytime and sunlight with their warmth are necessary.
We wouldn’t say that “business is dull” with the plants during the night or that they are not receiving their good. On the contrary, we have many times seen a transformation through the night. A plant that had seemed almost dead for lack of moisture and the ability to draw from the earth the required elements will be crisp and strong and very desirable in the morning!
Had it not been for the night with its blessings, that plant would have ceased to grow and to yield its helpfulness to us.
When “nighttime” comes to us, we should use it as a quiet time of great help. If we do, it will afford us time for meditation and the careful study of ourselves and our present methods and plan of service. It will cause us to turn more to the universal law and its operation and less to our personal efforts and the ways of others.
In this nighttime we are to rest in the spiritual knowledge and assurance that our growth is precious in the sight of the Lord. We are to rejoice that the divine law is ever operative, ever working to prosper all of God’s children. We are to give thanks that our affairs are in the Father’s hands and under the management of divine wisdom.
We shall rise up to be glad for this “night” in which we have turned within to the great stream of light, life, love, substance, and power, and have let them flow silently into our consciousness, to raise it to the Christ understanding. As we do this, we will know that we are:
“Like a tree planted by streams of water,
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.”–Psalms 1:3
Red, orange, yellow and Green
May they bring you light and peace-
Blue, indigo, violet too
Help you know and live your truth.
–And so it is! Namaste!
Mystical Strings 