The Lord's Prayer

 

Today, we will tune our ears and hearts to another early version of the Lord’s Prayer by Robert Stone.  Click above to listen.

Robert Stone wrote this piece around 1550.  I love that this version has been around for hundreds of years, sung by thousands of voices.  It reminds me of the words above a cathedral door proclaiming, "You are entering a song that began centuries before you were born and will continue for centuries to after you are gone."  The melody of our life is woven into the great symphony God is composing and conducting.  The notes of our life are brought together and blended with the notes of others.  Part of the power of singing the Lord's Prayer is two-fold:

First, there is a reverberation that comes from deep within our soul.  

Second, that note finds a connection with those around us.  

The deep within find harmony with the deep from another living, breathing soul.

Perhaps what is so powerful about the times we sing the Lord’s Prayer in our sanctuary is that it feels like the words reverberate the saints who have sung the words before us.  It is as if the woodwork and bricks are calling out, echoing, and joining with us.  On Sunday, I felt the woodwork join in with us and stir my soul as we sang.  

Go ahead and listen again...join in the melody of this version that is over five hundred years old.  

May you feel like Moses on Holy Ground as you do.