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by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words
https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OTW_S5-E9-ToTT_Bens-Essay.mp3Benjamin Holsteen believes that a life spent in pursuit of awe, wonder, and gratitude in the midst of the everyday is the best preparation for an eternity spent in the presence of their ultimate Source. He spends his days thinking, writing, talking, and living out of this conviction, currently as a PhD candidate in Art and Theology at the University of St Andrews. He lives on the edge of the North Sea with his wife and two children. You can find him online from benjamin.omg.lol and subscribe to *Transcendent Mixtapes*—his forthcoming newsletter reflecting in writing on religious life in the 21st century, filtered through a lifetime of obsessive pop music listening—at transcendentmixtapes.substack.com.
How can we sing?
by Matthew Clark
Our captors cracked their whips and grinned
Down by the rivers of Babylon
They laughed and mocking bid us sing
Down by the rivers of Babylon
So we hung our harps upon a withered tree
Down by the rivers of Babylon
And we gave up songs about being free
Down by the rivers of Babylon
Pre-Chorus
Oh don’t let our love grow cold
CHORUS
But how can we sing the Lord’s song
How can we sing about home?
How can we sing the Lord’s song
By the rivers of babylon?
We wake up strangers in a foreign land
Down by the rivers of Babylon
Lord, dry as sand slipping through your hand
Down by the rivers of Babylon
Pre-Chorus
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Oh, his love endures forever
(Lord, don’t hide your face forever)
©2023 Matthew Clark, Path in the Pines Music (ASCAP)
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S5:E17 – A Tale of Two Trees: Jonathan Koefoed, “Moonlight in the Desert: Singing the Sojourner’s Song”
S5:E16 – A Tale of Two Trees: Susan Cowger, “Time Between the Times”
S5:E15 – A Tale of Two Trees: Anita K. Palmer, “Mercy in the Wind”
S5:E14 – A Tale of Two Trees: Amber Salladin, “Singing the Feast of the New Creation”
S5:E13 – A Tale of Two Trees: Lancia E. Smith, “Reaching for the Unseen”
S5:E12 – A Tale of Two Trees: John Barnts, “Downside Up”
S5:E11 – A Tale of Two Trees: Jason Smith, “The Power and the Pit”
S5:E10 – A Tale of Two Trees: Steven Elmore, “Sustained by Joy”
S5:E8 – A Tale of Two Trees: Heidi White, “Two Trees, One Cross”
S5:E7 – A Tale of Two Trees: Emily Verdoorn, “Rain”
S5:E6 – Encouragement: Saying the Good Things
S5:E5 – The (understandable) lie of cynicism, and the reality of hope
S5:E4 – I have a confession to make
S5:E3 – The Joyous Grace of Creative Incompetence
S5:E2 – The threat of gratitude?
S5:E1 – Words the Make Quiet
S4:E19 – Only the Lover Sings: Rex Bradshaw, “The Digger’s Tale”
S4:E18 – Only the Lover Sings: Junius Johnson, “All you have to do is die: The power of abiding in death”
S4:E17 – Only the Lover Sings: Amy Baik Lee, “The Sound of Eucatastrophe”
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