Voices Found

  Voices Found #142 Bless now Bless now, O God, the journey that all your people make, the path thru noise and silence, the way of give and take. The trail is bound in desert and winds the mountain round, then leads beside still waters, the road where faith is found. Bless sojourners and pilgrims who share this winding way-- whose hope burns through  the terrors, whose love sustains the day. We yearn for holy freedom, while often we are bound. Together we are seeking the road where faith is found. Divine eternal lover, you meet us on the road. We wait for land of promise where milk and honey flow. But waiting not for places--you meet us all around. Our covenant is written on roads, as faith is found. Words: Sylvia G. Dunstan(1955-1993) Music: Ana Hernandez   (Jesus said) "I shall not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you all.  Yet in a little while the world will not see me, but you will see me; because I live you also shall live.  On that day you wil...

Voices Found   offers musical resources to support our inclusive  new Episcopal  lectionary,  A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, by  Wilda C. Gafney.    It  appoints   Acts 5:12-16    for the Third Sunday of Easter which tells us that shortly after the Resurrection, Jesus's disciples  cured the sick and healed the wounded.    Peter is the only disciple named here, but in  notes to the Lectionary,  Gafney, points out that un-named women disciples have also received  gifts of healing.  One such  nameless healer is celebrated as the "Woman with the Ointment Jar," in  Voices Found #1. The Women's Lectionary  is a much needed spiritual resource  that guides us through the liturgical year lifting up   feminine leadership and perspectives.  I will be following this lectionary to suggest Voices Found songs and hymns that support prayer and worship with this new, resour...