Music Prayers
From Canon Janet: I came across a lovely little book simply entitled The Prayer Tree by Leunig and found two delightful reflections about music and thought they would be a lovely tribute of thanks for all our wonderful St. Anne’s musicians, choirs, and guests who bless us all year with their ministry of music.
Let us celebrate and praise all those musicians and composers, who give their hands and hearts and voices to the expression of life’s mystery and joy.
Who nourish our heart in its yearning
Who dignify our soul in its struggling
who harmonize our grief and gladness
Who make melody from the fragments of chaos
Who align our spirit with creation
Who reveal to us the grace of God
Who calm us and delight us and set us free to love and forgive
Let us give thanks and rejoice.
Amen.
We give thanks for singers
All types of singers
Popular, concert singers and tuneless singers in the bath.
Whistlers, hummers and those who sing while they work.
Singers of lullabies, singers of nonsense and small scraps of melody.
Singers on branches and rooftops.
Morning yodelers and evening warblers
Singers in seedy nightclubs, singers in the street’
Singers in cathedrals, school halls,
grandstands, back yards, paddocks
Bedrooms. corridors, stairwells and places of echo and resonnance.
We give praise to all those who give some small voice
To the everyday joy of the soul.
Amen.
