On her blog Notes from the Far Fringe, my friend, the Rev. Kimberly Debus, has a section called "Hymn by Hymn," in which she posted a daily reflection on the hymns in the Unitarian Universalist hymnals Singing the Living Tradition and Singing the Journey, one hymn each day. I know several people who always seem to wake up with a song stuck in their head use it as a kind of journal prompt, reflecting a little each day on why that particular song might be on their mind.
I had a musical practice for a few years, when I was living on Cape Cod and working in Boston. The commute by bus was about an hour and a half each way, and I took to listening to one piece of music, repeated, for the entire trip. By the time I arrived at South Station it had become a part of me, like my in-breaths and out-breaths.
What's your relationship with music? Is it part of your spiritual practice? Might it be (without your even being aware of it)?
Pax tecum,
RevWik
This was one of my favorite song-prayers during those bus ride commutes:
