Nostalgia comes in many different forms. Today it was an email from my Dad with a sound clip of a song he recorded in the church when I was a child. I remember listening to this song, singing along and enjoying it immensely back then. Listening to it again now had all those childhood memories rushing back. Only I have changed a little since then, and the message has lost a some of its meaning for me.
Knowing what I do now about so many of the people who stand and sing songs in church, patting themselves on the back for being so holy while harbouring hatred in their hearts for others (a big no-no in Jesus' teachings) Suddenly I saw a beautiful song that was filled with lip service rather than 'service' in the true sense of the word. I felt the need to expand a little and add my own thoughts. So I took it and tweaked it, re-wrote it and added to it to make it mine again.
Allelu yahweh (new improved edits in italics)
When you sing to me beloveds
Sing with joyful melody
Lifting hands and lifting voices
To praise me worthily
When you sing to me beloveds
Let my spirit employ
Your hands and minds and voices
And fill them with my grace and joy
Allelu yahweh let your hearts be as the lamb
Allelu yahweh If you seek the Great I am
Allelu yahweh let your love be like a dove
Allelu yahweh if he reigns, he reigns, in heav’n above
When you sing to me beloveds
sing with kindness in your hearts
Lifting up your fellow creatures
hold no judgment for their paths
When you sing to me beloveds
Be accepting of your kin
Just as I have accepted
your darkness and all your sins
Allelu yahweh let your hearts be as the lamb
Allelu yahweh If you seek the Great I am
Allelu yahweh let your love be like a dove
Allelu yahweh if he reigns, he reigns, in heav’n above
When you sing to me beloveds
May you sing with one accord
Lifting hands and lifting voices
Lifting up to me, your Lord
When you sing to me beloveds
Let my spirit employ
For your love for one another
glorifies me in heaven above
Allelu yahweh Worthy, worthy is the lamb
Allelu yahweh Who is the Great I am
Allelu yahweh Descending like a dove
Allelu yahweh Who reigns, who reigns, in heav’n above
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