Stahlke Adoption

Advent and Christmas

Some of our children are students at Grace Lutheran School, which has an incredible music program. I can't attend very many professional concerts anymore, so it was a gift to be present at a Grace school concert, where the children were joined by the adult ensembles of the church. We heard some very fine music, including Bach's Magnificat.

I also found Dennis Zimmer's setting of "What Is the Crying at Jordan?" to be beautifully haunting. The text by Carol Christopher Drake is copyrighted, so I can't give it all, but here's enough to give you a flavor:

What is the crying at Jordan?
Who hears, O God, the prophecy?
Dark is the season, dark our hearts
and shut to misery.

Now comes the day of salvation,
in joy and terror the Word is born!
God gives himself into our lives;
O let salvation dawn!

posted by Stahlkes @ 11:42 AM