This is a poem I carried around in my wallet for years. Today it came back to me through a friend and I learned the poet's name.
It's about Grace and Acceptance.
@ghandigirl, what a wonderful way to greet my Saturday morning! I'd read this beautiful poem years ago and had forgotten about it. It is as meaningful now as it was then. Thank you for sharing it with us.
(2) There's Still My Joy - Indigo Girls - YouTube
(2) "There's Still My Joy" Siebert Family. - YouTube
This song is exactly how I feel today and I am sure many others do too. It is a song about grief, and amazing grace.
I will be learning it on guitar during my week off. I am a singer and I am grateful to be able to sing this song and find some peace.
If you are grieving this Holiday Season, I hope that it comforts you as it does me.
The perfect song altered slightly for the times we are currently living.
In honor of the hostages who have recently been released and those still being held, I would like to share an incredible song with everyone.
Broadway came together a few weeks ago and did what they do best.
"Bring Them Home".
You will definitely be moved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97sDLWpQqgg
"Bring Him Home" is one of my all time favorites even before the beautiful adaptation you cited.
Here is another moving adaptation from Madonna's "Like a Prayer" in honor of the hostages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2laYXcBdU
@raincloud @lovendures thank you for posting those incredibly moving songs. They were like prayers.
I've felt incredibly depressed today and I have been trying hard to raise my spirits and get into the mood for Christmas. So I decided to listen to Cher's new Christmss song to help me with that:
https://youtu.be/G_8Bo3eE-3Y?si=zJQD4XO0JXtCwXgD
Beautiful, beautiful version, when people come together to sing it so increases the power!
I also find (can't help mentioning 😊) that Josh Groban's version, on his Stages Album, is one of the songs when Spirit sings through him, or at the very least when I hear Spirit within his voice—and even though he is singing the original lyrics with "him" not "them" the power of this anti-war song, this song of love even in pain, is always immense. ANY rendition of this song is powerful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXnRf3TQcpk
Avant-garde holiday song.
https://youtu.be/XE0qtKkvVr8?si=MYufGtK8B5hmQA0U
(for sonic youth fans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXHsVp3otU
Yo la tengo byrds cover
Many folks have expressed that the song "Songbird" by Christine McVie is meaningful to them.
I am attaching my version here.
Happy New Year to all.
Love, ghandigirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFry2H3SHKg