Go With God

Music stays with me throughout the week and I find myself humming, singing or merging songs that I’ve heard recently. Since I live with men-folk, I listen to quite a bit of sports talk, or books on tape rather than Top 40 or other music stations. As I watch the Grammys tonight I find that I haven’t heard 80-90% of the songs or the artists. So the music that carries me through the week is usually what I hear on Sunday morning, songs that come out of the memory banks, or made up songs. Today was an especially good day for music during worship and I’ve already been singing around the house as if I was on microphone because it’s a song that I can honor and sing as if the words had been written by me. I can’t think of a better blessing for the week to offer to the congregation.

My prayer for the congregation?

Farther than lands you have ever imagined
Deeper than even the oceans of blue
An open horizon is waiting like morning
Waking the dreamer who's living in you

So now go with the wind at your back
and the sun on your face
With a song in your heart and the promise of grace
Go in peace and in truth and let love lead your way
Go with God
Go with God

Stronger than will in the soul of a fighter
Higher than hope in the heart of a child
There is a longing, a yearning inside us
That's reaching for heaven and won't be denied

So now go with the wind at your back
and the sun on your face
With a song in your heart and the promise of grace
Go in peace and in truth and let love lead your way
Go with God
Go with God

“Go with God” by Carolyn Arend