if you were born on this earth [most humans were] then you are a part of this earth and the earth is a part of you.

There is a sense of comfort in choosing songs that are familiar. Comfort for me and for the congregants singing the song. We always sing in a more robust way to a familiar tune with even more familiar lyrics. Sometimes the melody or text of a song take us back to memories of singing that song in another time and another place. Those memories aren’t necessarily ones we want to revisit.

There is a sense of comfort in choosing songs that are familiar. Comfort for me and for the congregants singing the song. We always sing in a more robust way to a familiar tune with even more familiar lyrics. Sometimes the melody or text of a song take us back to memories of singing that song in another time and another place. Those memories aren’t necessarily ones we want to revisit.