This hymn is the one I wrote this week. I'm using Marcia McFee's Worship Design Studio to plan my worship, at least periodically (I'm a solo pastor of a rural charge, without a lot of layfolks interested in worship, so I sometimes have limited time.) This week I'm riffing on her Who Are You?? Epiphany Plus series, as it were, but her music suggestions are mostly contemporary. I can do ONE contemporary song in a service, but I can't do 3 or 4 (and I typically use congregational song 3 to 5 different times in a service.) Unable to find just the right hymn, I wrote one.
I have to say that this is the quickest I've ever had a hymn go from inspiration to bulletin. I wrote it in one day. The first line, and title is a bit of a homage to a song I wish I'd used last week, Marty Haugen's Up from the Water. It's about God naming us, Us naming/defining ourselves, and the reminder not to try to name/define others. Thanks to Suzan Broadbent from Australia, who gave me some ideas when I was stuck on one line.
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