Thank you for the songs

By Evan Lewis in Prayers

For songs and singers we pray

We bless you, God, for all the good songs that have been sung:
songs that have celebrated life,
and love, and people together;
songs that have told of light shining in darkness,
of promise and hope;
songs that have conjured new creative possibilities into being.

And we bless you for the singers of the good songs in all ages.
For we have caught snatches of their poetry and their melody,
enough for us to try to become singers in our turn.

Forgive us if we have not always picked up the tune as well as we might.
Forgive us if any embarrassment has made us try to hush the singers.
Forgive us if we have ever thought that the real world
does not need the song.

Let there still be songs, blessed God, and the singers of songs:
strengthening,
creating,
prevailing.

Let the singers at last win over the non-singers
and the anti-singers,
so that a new world comes to birth
and all rejoice.