Emmaus Singers present: Footprints
Itinerary
Saturday, July 9 Morningside Manor, San Antonio, TX
Sunday, July 10 Travis Park UMC, San Antonio, TX
Monday, July 11 Atriums Assisted Living Community, Overland Park, KS
Wednesday, July 13 Bethany Retirement Community, Chicago, IL
Wednesday, July 13 First UMC at the Chicago Temple, Chicago, IL
Rehearsals
Home performance - July 10
Ellacombe Emmaus Brass Ensemble
Bonse Aba traditional Zambian song, arr. Andrew Fischer
All things change
when you measure them. You might as well
sing, the sound of your voice
joining the others, like waters overflowing,
the name of the living God.
from “Naming the Living God” by Kathleen Norris
Once you had gone
your absence filled the room,
like changing light,
like song.
I am with you always
he said,
when all I wanted
was to see you again.
I tasted you in the bread and wine.
from “The Room” by Kathleen Norris
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me traditional spiritual, arr. Donald Moore
Whatever happens,
those who have learned
to love one another
have made their way
to the lasting world
and will not leave,
whatever happens.
from “Sabbaths 1998” by Wendell Berry
Circle of Love words and music by Pepper Choplin
In a single motion the river comes and goes.
At times, living beside it, we hardly notice it
as it noses calmly along with its bounds
like the family pig. But a day comes
when it swiftens, darkens, rises, flows over
its banks, spreading its mirror out upon
the flat fields of the valley floor, and then
it is like God’s love or sorrow, including
at last all that has been left out.
from “Sabbaths 1998” by Wendell Berry
Down in the River to Pray traditional spiritual, arr. Gary L. Mabry
I’ve gone too far toward time,
and now have come back home.
I stand and wait for light
to open the dark night.
I stand and wait for prayer
to come and find me here.
from "Sabbaths 2000" by Wendell Berry
Follow Me to Jordan words and music by Jay Althouse
As timely as a river
God’s timeless life passes
into this world. It passes
through bodies, giving life,
and past them, giving death.
The secret fish leaps up
into the light and is
again darkened. The sun
comes from the dark, it lights
the always passing river,
shines on the great-branched tree,
and goes. Longing and dark,
we are completely filled
with breath of love, in us
forever incomplete.
from "Sabbaths 2000" by Wendell Berry
Seasons of Love
words and music by Jonathan Larson from the musical RENT
At dusk the gray heron flies
home among the trees
and then is hidden
from everyting but itself,
at peace with the day
and the coming day.
from "Sabbaths 2002" by Wendell Berry
The Storm is Passing Over traditional spiritual, arr. Barbara W. Baker
She works among budding daisies, near a row of lettuce
seedlings. She kneels in earth, pulling slowly.
The cool sunlight is full of sound: rapids, a waterfall.
It is only leaves, dry and rasping.
This was an ocean floor, and even now the air seems full
of salt, full of waiting….
from "Dust" by Kathleen Norris
You are the Salt and Light words and music by Pepper Choplin
All things change
when you measure them. You might as well
sing, the sound of your voice
joining the others, like waters overflowing,
the name of the living God.
from "Naming the Living God" by Kathleen Norris
O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
words by Charles Wesley with references to AZMON, music by Mark A. Miller
The Trip
