Kindness far and familiar

 

Annunciation  by Henry Tanner

March 25 -  Vow Day for the Daughters of Charity

I am remembering the first day I made these vows.  This is the song we sang at Mass:

You have written Your song

by Tom Conry

You have written Your song in the deep of my heart

I carry it gently, as a woman with child, as a woman with child.

We look to tomorrow

as the night watch waits for the sun.

You have walked with me firmly to the edge of my dream.

I bow to it hopeful, knowing we may come true.

Knowing we may come true.

We look for each other

as a blind man stumbles for home.

As a woman with child,,

knowing we may come true,

Only stories to walk on,

No rock to depend on, we see ourselves new.

You have fashioned a people from ashes and earth,

Defenseless and hopeful, as a song newly sung,

as a song newly sung,

There is promise about You

as a seed now pressed to the soil.

You have withered our wisdom and melted our hearts

Your kindness is legend spoke from father to child,

spoke from father to child.

We celebrate You

as a poor man honors his bread.

Kindness far and familiar

as near as the wind;

Word that's never been spoken without being felt;

Servant bound by forgiveness

that no chain can hold;

Star that blazes beyond us and dims in our hand;

Cry of nations and people and nobody knows;

Man who's broken a mountain and death must give up

signpost pointed among us

Is nowhere at all;

We remember a people, 

a pillar of fire.

Erin Hansen    Cascade of Tulips