-- Albert Einstein |
Invitation - A song about CommunityI wrote this song last year about the experience of spending time with friends in community as part of A Small Group Cincinnati. It starts with the idea of INVITATION as opposed to persuasion, petition, pitch or promotion and the power of knowing each of us is coming into every engagement by choice. It includes the ideas that in a world in which speed has become a given, we can choose to focus together on DEPTH, that even though talk of need and problem solving is so common, we can choose to talk about GIFTS. We can pay attention to the space and structure of how we gather and know that the stories we tell and the questions we ask each other have power to shift our experience of ourselves, our neighborhoods and beyond. It makes the invitation to join in a new conversation about life and community -- and I am still learning about these new conversations, myself, so I welcome the curiosity of anyone interested in exploring them together. Peace, Randy November 2010 LYRICS: ---------- Invitation This is the Invitation To a new conversation Of depth over speed Of gift over need A new Listening… The structure of how we gather Speaks of what really matters Telling a new Story of who We are to each other This is the Invitation Community’s Restoration By just showing up We’re gifted enough To birth a new world Though we don’t know what it will look like We’re feeling that world’s alive Like it’s ready to bloom Here in this room The seeds in each life So Community’s New Frontier Is finding all that we need, right here To weave a rich, local life Into a tapestry lined With the connections we share This is the invitation To join a celebration Of neighbors & friends Connecting again Creating the new… Of neighbors & friends Connecting again Creating the new My neighbors & friends I’m glad to come in And be here With you. Words & Music by Randy Weeks with thanks to Peter Block and A Small Group Copyright Randy Weeks - randy@weeks.org April-July 2009 Recorded 7-27-09 at Monastery Studio, Cincinnati, OH Production & Engineering: Ric Hordinski Acoustic Guitar & Vocal: Randy Weeks Electric Guitars & Bass: Ric Hordinski Drums: Josh Seurkamp |
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