Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 5/2

 

Sunday afternoon I took off with some friends for Rockport and

a concert at the Shalin Liu Performance Center. (Follow the link 

if only to see the magnificent stage in this intimate venue!)

Performing was Cantus,  a men's acapella group of exceptional

quality and depth.  This concert would easily have a place among

the 10 top musical moments of my life.

 

They sang a piece whose lyrics I'm very familiar with - though

I never new it had a musical setting. Every year around this time

I used to distribute  to graduating seniors copies of Thomas Merton's 

prayer, "My God, I Don't Know Where I'm Going." The music is

by Ysaye Barnwell and it's - a tango!  Had I not heard it with my

own ears, I'd never have believed this could work - but it does

and it works beautifully and reverently.

 

I'm going to let Cantus' prayer in song stand for the whole of our

prayer together this morning...

 

Tango With God by Ysaye Barnwell,

    text by Thomas Merton

 

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My Lord God

 

I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me.

I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself.

 

My Lord God!

 

I have no idea where I am going.

I do not see the road ahead of me.

and the fact that I think I am following your will

does not mean that I am actually doing so.

 

My Lord God!

 

I believe that my desire to please you

does in fact please you.

And I hope that I have this desire in all that I am doing.

Yes, Lord

And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road,

Therefore I will trust you always though

Though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me,

and  never will you leave me to face my perils alone. 

 

My Lord God

Never will you leave me to face my perils alone. 

My Lord God

 

 

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