Songs of Hope
Song of the soul Cry from the heart Celebration of life The daily struggles of life! The heavy life of their days The life of all nights The life of all mornings The life of all evenings! “When I fall on my knees With my face to the rising sun”, sings the Spiritual A song of the spirit A spirit committed to its life’s purposes. The Spiritual keeps all its strength All its acuteness of heart All its power to vibrate the soul A soul in search of its destiny. It’s the song that invokes the hereafter and evokes the here and now: “Let us break bread together on our knees When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun”. It’s a Spiritual, a song “out of the depths”. A song that soothes the spirit And heals a collective memory plagued with wounds From the Tulsa Massacre to the Tuskegee Study, A song to re-focus on life and on the essence of life. To give life a renewed meaning and value: “When I fall on my knees, with my face to the rising sun, O Lord, have mercy on me”, sings the Spiritual, The Gullah Spiritual, a song of hope!
suzanne renaud
Posted at 11:48h, 16 MarchBeautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Grace Colella
Posted at 12:52h, 16 MarchThank you Dodzi for reminding us that Spirituals are some of the world’s most soul-felt expressions of human suffering and liberation.
Peter Bisson
Posted at 22:13h, 16 MarchThank you Dodzi!
Philomène Amemado-Attipou
Posted at 10:06h, 17 MarchThanks so much for sharing this.