[Oe List ...] Singing A New Song

[Charles Hahn]

Randy, what wonderful guidelines and intent.  At this point I do not think
I can add anything to them, but perhaps others can.  Keep your rich mind
flowing, and all you song writers proceed.
A glorious New Year to all.
Charles

2011/12/29 R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com>

>   Friends and Colleagues,
>
> There is evidence that the spirit energy of some of our song writers is
> bubbling to the surface with new songs that are especially appropriate for
> today.  We have long known that singing is an indispensable part of our
> missional engagement and life together.  But many of us have expressed
> lately that the songs we sang in the previous century do not now have the
> power they had then.  With the celebration of 50 years of service looking
> toward the next 50 beginning "officially" on Sunday, it may be the perfect
> time for the writing and singing of new songs.
>
> Although not all of us have written "movement" songs, we know that all of
> us are song writers at heart.  If I were to attempt to write a "new song" I
> have thought that some guidelines for me would be:
>
>    - have a simple tune anyone could sing
>    - more about the future than the past
>    - more about what others are doing than about what "we" have and are
>    doing
>    - more about community than individual resolve and effort
>    - more about "living our lives" than "dying our deaths"
>    - would hold the tension between the local and the global
>    - would highlight themes like creativity, emerging reality, wholeness,
>    participation...
>
> These are just a quick brainstorm of my thoughts on the subject.  I'm
> wondering what some of you might add to the brainstorm in case someone
> else decided to join in this resurgence of song writing that seems to
> be emerging in our group.
>
> Happy New Year,
> Randy
>
> "Listen to what is emerging from yourself to the course of being in the
> world; not to be supported by it, but to bring it to reality as it desires."
> -Martin Buber (adapted)
>
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