The 4th Sunday after Pentecost
De’Evin Johnson, Adult Ministry Intern, Broadway Baptist Church
Isaiah 1:16-17, read by Jana Heady, Member of Broadway:
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your doings
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil,
learn to do good;
seek justice,
rescue the oppressed;
defend the orphan,
plead for the widow.”
Romans 12:2, read by Jennifer Baergen Davis, Pastor of Adult and Family Ministries:
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God — what is good and acceptable and perfect.
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
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“What If” by David Noroña and Eric Whitacre
You’re hiding, (Nope,) surviving, (Yep.) You’re stubborn, too. (True.)
And you’re frightened, (I’m not,) not knowing (What?) your heart. (And you?)
I’m trying (To?) to question, (And?) the answer’s near. (Where?)
Here:
I yearn to soar, (So?) so there has to be much more (No.)
Yes, there must be another way.
It’s time to (Fly?) That’s right. (Then try explaining slow.)
We have to go (Where?) high above (The wall?) of course. (We’d fall!)
Perhaps, but then we’d know (Know?) all the things (Like what?) like wings and worlds we knew before.
(You’re not making sense, you yearn to soar, but we don’t have wings anymore.)
I know but there must be another way.
What if all this came true? Pure bliss!
What if your wings sailed free? We’d sing!
What would I do?
You’d lift the moon,
And make it spin.
I’d inspire a choir of sapphire winds
And you? (We’d sing) What song? (Just harmony.)
And we’d sing free in perfect harmony,
There must be another way.
What if this time your dreams they’d rhyme? (Sublime!)
What if your voice sailed free? (Rejoice!)
And we’d sing free in perfect harmony,
There must be another way.
https://ericwhitacre.com/music-catalog/what-if
© 2008 David Noroña and Eric Whitacre
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