spirited & singing: a wider view

published songs

Hold this memory (Lacuna: Space for God, Uniting Church in Australi, Melbourne, 2003)
Never Alone (Lacuna: Space for God, Uniting Church in Australia, Melbourne, 2003) - also available on this blog.
My soul is sore (Lacuna: Space for God, Uniting Church in Australia, Melbourne, 2003)
He loves us all (NCYC songbook, 1987)
And it was very good (written for the children at KUCA campout, Euroa - also available on this blog)
Walk in the name of God (NCYC songbook, 2001)
Can we still hope? (NCYC songbook, 1987)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves:

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles," 1992 (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech)