It's Lent
It's been a few days. Have you found yourself returning to this melody? Humming it in the car or at the store. Did you return to listen again, this time bravely and boldly picking up crayons to color a prayer? Or are you just not sure what I am trying to do here, confused or confounded? Or some combination of all the above. Listen just to the melody again, softly hum along, riding the ascending and descending notes like waves on the sea. Read slowly the first verse below remembering that hymns are poetry. You cannot rush or race through poetry. You cannot skim the surface of poetry. You need to hold each word of a poem in the palm of your hand feeling its weight and exploring the contours/crevasses/cracks of a poem ~ every square inch. Let the photos last Advent, you cannot glance at a poem, you need to gaze in order to reframe and refocus. Here is the first verse of this hymn: God of grace and God of glory, on your people pour your power; crown your ancien