Day by Day, Godspell (Soundtrack 1973)
Shake Your Tail Feathers, The Blues Brothers (Soundtrack 1980)
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen (Acoustic Live)
Turn, Turn, Turn, The Byrds
Working in a Coal Mine, Devo
Wide Open Spaces, Dixie Chicks
Ramblin’ Man, Doobie Brothers
Waiting on a Train, Ernest Tubbs
Waltz Across Texas, Ernest Tubbs
Learn to Fly, Foo Fighters
Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra
Amarillo by Morning, George Strait
Jesus of Suburbia, Green Day
New Sensation, INXS
Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Jimmy Buffett
Purple Haze, Jimmy Hendrix
Are You Ready for a Miracle, Pattie LaBelle (Leap of Faith Soundtrack 1992)
Home, Engineers
On Wednesday mornings I send devotions to two different groups of people. These devotions share a format with one exception: Centering, Ponder, Remember or Respond. I have some sources that I visit and borrow from, with proper citation, to piece together the devotions. It has become a discipline for me.
You can read the Koinonia devotion here.
You can read the CYYA devotion here.
Sometimes, I write words for the devotion. This morning I offered this prayer.
O Lord who creates, we seek imagination to understand how to do what is necessary to be in community. Help us evaluate what is an acceptable level of risk, and if that risk is necessary to be good news in our communities and our congregations.
We mourn with those who mourn family and friends.
Give us the will to be decent, without reciprocity, in a time of division and derision.
Let the decisions we make, the work of our hands, and the way we follow Jesus voice our faith in you and your vision of community, O God, who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation and our lives. Amen.