Music for Ukraine - Day 11

It was a few days after the Sunday service at The Mother Church on November 24, 2019 when I checked the replay of the service online and heard Gwen Eagleton sing tonight’s song. It was so moving that I had to get it, and I made this recording a couple of months later. I wish I could send you a recording of Gwen singing of this piece, but The Mother Church doesn’t allow their solo recordings to be distributed. Too bad – it was exquisite.

Thinking of the song’s significance in the context of the war in Ukraine, I see it as a message of hope for the future, with the past left behind – and recognizing that none of us have ever really left our “Father’s house.”

Dick Frantzreb

http://www.vocal-works.com/sounds/Solo_bank/200116CG.mp3
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In My Father’s House
Words by Pamela Martin; music by Craig Courtney

In my Father’s house, you will find a place in the warm embrace of an open door.
In my Father’s house, leave the past behind, come inside and find what you’re longing for.
In my Father’s house, solace can be found, comfort will surround the bruised and broken.
In my Father’s house, children live in peace, war and hatred cease and love is spoken.
In my Father’s house.

In my Father’s house, you will find a place in the warm embrace of an open door.
In my Father’s house, leave the past behind, come inside and find what you’re longing for.
In my Father’s house, pardoned from all sin, free from what has been, life can start again.
In my Father’s house, prodigals come home, no one walks alone, come and enter in.
In my Father’s house.

Copyright 2006 by Beckenhorst Press, Inc.

Accompaniment by Tom Barr

This music was only published in choral form. It’s available from Beckenhorst Press at www.beckenhorstpress.com.