Here is a fun little exercise that can engage a small group, stimulate laughter, and bond people together.
The idea is to pick out some relatively simple songs and rewrite new words for them.
I’ve given you “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and related it to Covid 19 as a sample.
Have someone play a piano or other instrument and experience some fun. My version was written for Westminster Shores, where I live.
O COVID 19
O CO VID NINE TEEN EV IL PLAGUE
IN FEST ING ALL YOU SEE
HERE AT WEST MIN STER WE DO LIVE
SHEL TERED IN PLACE ARE WE
YET TEARS IN OUR HEART SHIN ETH
AND MAKES US WANT TO SING
WE WANT TO HIDE FROM ALL OUR FEARS
AND JOY THIS DAY LET RING
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Another example reflects on our sense of call.
HOW CLEAR IS OUR VOCATION, LORD,
#1.
How clear is our vocation, Lord,
When once we heed your call
To live according to your word
And daily learn, refreshed, restored,
That you are Lord of all
And will not let us fall.
#2.
But if, forgetful, we should find
Your yoke is hard to bear,
If worldly pressures fray the mind
And love itself cannot unwind
Its tangled skein of care:
Our inward life repair.
#3.
We marvel how your saints became
In hindrances more sure:
Whose joyful virtues put to shame
The casual way we wear your name,]
And by our faults obscure
Your power to cleanse and cure
#4.
In what you give us, Lord, to do
Together or alone,
In old routines or ventures new,
May we not cease to look to you:
The cross you hung upon,
All you endeavored, done.
Try it with some friends.
