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BY


FRANK A VOLLMER

LUTHER

LUTHER - ISAIAH 55, 1-13



WHEN I WAS A LAD
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY
WHEN I WAS A CHILD LIKE YOU
I HAD BEEN TAUGHT
I HAD BEEN TOTALLY TAUGHT
BY THE LEARNED PEOPLE OF THAT TIME
PRIESTS IN THE PULPIT
PARENTS IN THE HOME
TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOL
BY THE TIME I WAS A YOUNG MAN
I HAD BEEN TAUGHT
THAT GOD HATED SIN
 THEREFORE GOD HATED ME

I WAS AFRAID OF GOD
I WAS TRAPPED LIKE AN ANIMAL
TRAPPED IN A ROOM WITH MOVABLE WALLS
TRAPPED IN A ROOM WHOSE WALLS HAD VOICES

ONE WALL CRIED OUT
CAN YOU BE FREE FROM SIN
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (LIKE A MOAN)



ANOTHER
IS THERE A DAY OF JUDGMENT
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (LIKE A HISS)


ANOTHER
IS GOD INDIFFERENT TO SIN
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (LIKE A MOAN)

ANOTHER
WILL YOU BE DAMMED FOR YOUR SINS
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS5 (LIKE A HISS)


AND OVER MY HEAD LIKE THE SOUND OF THUNDER
WAS WHAT I WAS TOLD
WAS GOD'S VOICE
CRYING
VENGEANCE IS MINE
VENGEANCE IS MINE (BEATING ON TRASH CAN LID)
VENGEANCE IS MINE
VENGEANCE IS MINE (BEATING ON TRASH CAN LID)





THERE WAS NO ESCAPE
THE ROOM KEPT GETTING SMALLER
AND SMALLER
THE VOICES LOUDER AND LOUDER
THE THUNDER STRONGER AND STRONGER
TILL I CRIED OUT
GOD MY GOD
WHY DO YOU HAVE
SUCH AN ANGRY HATEFUL FACE (LOUD BANG)

I FELL ON THE FLOOR
EXPECTING TO PLUNGE
INTO THE PIT OF HELL
AND NOTHING HAPPENED
THE EARTH DID NOT SWALLOW ME UP
RATHER IT PRESSED BACK
GOD'S LOVE PRESSED BACK
THEN I HEARD A SONG
AND I HEARD IN THAT SONG
THE VOICES OF CHILDREN
THE VOICES OF CHILDREN
SINGING TO ME
TELLING ME WHY
THE EARTH HAD PRESSED BACK

SONG (TO BE SUNG SEVERAL TIMES)

MY THOUGHTS AND WORDS ARE NOT LIKE YOURS
NOT LIKE YOURS
NOT LIKE YOURS
MY THOUGHTS AND WORDS ARE NOT LIKE YOURS
I FORGIVE ALL SINS

I HAD MADE THE MISTAKE
OF TRYING TO CREATE GOD
IN MY IMAGE

I DID NOT REMEMBER
NOT HAD BEEN TAUGHT
THAT I WAS HIS CREATION
FRAIL AND IMPERFECT
BUT STILL LOVED BY HIM
AS A PARENT WILL ALWAYS LOVE A CHILD
NO MATTER HOW IMPERFECT

I HAVE LIVED MANY YEARS
SINCE THAT DAY
WHEN I FORGET THAT LESSON
THE WALL PRESS IN
WHEN I REMEMBER
THE WALLS RETREAT
NOT GONE COMPLETELY
FOR I AM NOT PERFECT
BUT THE SONG HELPS
WOULD YOU SING IT TO ME AGAIN


SONG (TO BE SUNG SEVERAL TIMES)

MY THOUGHTS AND WORDS ARE NOT LIKE YOURS
NOT LIKE YOURS
NOT LIKE YOURS
MY THOUGHTS AND WORDS ARE NOT LIKE YOURS
I FORGIVE ALL SINS

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PILATE

PILATE

GOOD EVENING
MY NAME IS PONTIUS PILATE
AND I WELCOME
AND THANK YOU
FOR COMING TO HEAR
MY SIDE OF THE STORY
OF THE EXECUTION
OF THE CRIMINAL
JESUS OF NAZARETH.

NOW YOU MAY ASK
WHY A MAN OF MY IMPORTANCE
CARES ABOUT THE DEATH
OF ONE GUILTY OF TREASON.

LET ME GIVE YOU MY REASONS,
LET ME EXPLAIN MYSELF
IF I MUST.

EVERY SUNDAY
IN YOUR CHURCHES
YOU SAY TOGETHER THESE WORDS
OR WORDS QUITE SIMILAR.
THEY ARE,

I BELIEVE IN GOD
THE FATHER ALMIGHTY,
MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.
AND IN JESUS CHRIST
HIS ONLY SON OUR LORD,
WHO WAS CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT,
BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY,
SUFFERED UNDER PONTIUS PILATE....
AND THERE'S THE RUB.

NO MATTER
WHAT ELSE I MAY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
I AM ONLY REMEMBERED
AS THE ONE UNDER WHOM JESUS
SUFFERED.

BUT FIRST
YOU MUST UNDERSTAND
THAT THOUGH THE WORDS OF THE CREED
ARE IMPORTANT TO YOU,
THEY MEAN NOTHING TO ME

FOR I AM NEITHER JEW NOR CHRISTIAN
I AM A ROMAN
WITH ROMAN BELIEFS
LET ME TELL YOU MY STORY. ***LIGHT FADE***




I WAS IN A BAD MOOD TO BEGIN WITH.
MY NORMAL RESIDENCE WAS AT CAESAREA
WHERE THE COOL BREEZES BLOW OFF THE MEDITERRANEAN

BUT EVERY YEAR
AROUND MARCH OR APRIL
WHEN IT'S THE HOTTEST IT CAN BE
WE MUST GO TO JERUSALEM
TO KEEP THE PEACE

SO WE TAKE THE ARMY AND GO,
KNOWING IN ADVANCE
THAT THERE WOULD BE TROUBLE
THERE ALWAYS WAS.

IT SEEMED THEIR FESTIVAL
CALLED THE PASSOVER,
A TRIBUTE TO AN ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY
AROUSES NATIONALISTIC FEELINGS
AND THERE WERE OFTEN RIOTS BREAKING OUT
PROTESTING ROMAN RULE

I SHOWED THEM ROMAN RULE
THE TIME I MARCHED MY SOLDIERS INTO THE TEMPLE
THEN ERECTED MY ROMAN FLAGS AND STATUES
AGAINST ALL THEIR CHURCH LAWS

CAESAR APPROVES OF STRONG ACTION.
HE WANTS PEACE
NOT THIS CONSTANT BICKERING.

A LEADER IN HIS EYES
IS JUDGED BY THE KEEPING
OF THE PEACE

THAT WAS MY WISH ALSO
WHEN I MARCHED OUT TO JERUSALEM

THE JOURNEY WAS STARTED
IN OCEAN COOLNESS
BUT WE WALKED
INTO INCREASING HEAT
INTO AN OVEN
IN WHICH WAS BREWING
NATIONALISTIC FRENZY,
RELIGIOUS FERVOR
PLUS A MAD MAN
WHO THOUGHT HE WAS
GOD'S SON ***LIGHT FADE***




WHEN WE GOT THERE
THINGS WERE QUIET FOR A WHILE.
NOTHING LIKE A SHOW OF FORCE
TO KEEP THE RABBLE QUIET

THEN THERE CAME A REPORT
OF A KIND OF SPONTANEOUS PARADE
INVOLVING THIS FELLOW JESUS
RIDING ON A DONKEY

THE PEOPLE WERE LAUGHING AND SINGING,
SPREADING THEIR CLOAKS
 SPREADING PALM BRANCHES
FOR THE DONKEY TO WALK ON
SORT OF A JEWISH RED CARPET TREATMENT

IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD NATURED JOLLY CROWD
SO WE ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN
EVEN THOUGH THE CHURCH LEADERS
WANTED US TO BREAK IT UP

THIS HAPPENED ON THE DAY
YOU CALL PALM SUNDAY.

THEN THE NEXT DAY
THIS JESUS FELLOW MAKES A WHIP
 GOES INTO THE TEMPLE
AND CLEARS HOUSE

I MEAN HE CLEARS HOUSE.
HE BEATS THE MONEYCHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE;
HE SCATTERS THEIR COINS ALL OVER THE GROUND.

HE LETS ALL THE ANIMALS GO.
HE SAYS TO THE KEEPERS OF BIRDS
TAKE THEM OUTSIDE.
A NICE GESTURE THERE
NOT FRIGHTENING THE BIRDS.

ONCE AGAIN THE CHURCH LEADERS PROTESTED
BUT I LET THEM STEW.
HE HADN'T BROKEN ROMAN LAW.
JUST ANGERED THE CHURCH LEADERS
 THEY WERE A THORN IN MY SIDE
 NO FRIEND OF MINE

BUT THE CHURCH LEADERS
KEPT GETTING ANGRIER AND ANGRIER
THE MORE
HE TALKED
HIS SILLY LITTLE MESSAGE
OF LOVE
THE MORE THEY HATED HIM,



THE MORE
HE SPOKE OF FORGIVENESS
THE MORE THEY WISHED TO DO HIM HARM.

THEY WERE IN CHARGE OF THE TEMPLE
THEY WERE THE LEADERS
 AFTER PALM SUNDAY
THEY HAD HIM ARRESTED
AND CHARGED
WITH BEING AGAINST THE CHURCH

AND SO THEY BROUGHT HIM TO ME
TO BE JUDGED. ***LIGHT FADE***







P) WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT THIS MAN TO ME

V) BECAUSE HE CALLS HIMSELF A KING
AND WE HAVE NO KING BUT CAESAR

P) NO KING BUT CAESAR
IF ONLY THAT WERE TRUE
IS THAT ALL HE IS GUILTY OF

V) HE CALLS HIMSELF
SON OF GOD
WHICH IS A BLASPHEMY

P) THAT IS A CHURCH PROBLEM
TEND TO IT YOURSELF

V) THE PENALTY FOR BLASPHEMY IS DEATH
 WE CANNOT
BY ROMAN LAW
PUT ANYONE TO DEATH

P) BUT WHY
WHAT EVIL HAS HE DONE

V) HE CALLS HIMSELF A KING
THE SON OF GOD


P) JESUS ARE YOU
THE KING OF THE JEWS

J) IS THIS YOUR QUESTION OR SOMEONE ELSE'S

P) AM I A JEW
WHO WOULD WASTE MY TIME ON SUCH NONSENSE

NO YOUR OWN PEOPLE
 YOUR OWN HIGH PRIESTS
HAVE HANDED YOU OVER
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

J) MY KINGDOM
DOES NOT BELONG TO THIS WORLD
IF MY KINGDOM BELONGED TO THIS WORLD,
MY FOLLOWERS WOULD FIGHT TO PROTECT ME
FROM THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES
NO,
MY KINGDOM DOES NOT BELONG HERE.

P) YOU ARE A KING THEN

J) YOU HAVE SAID IT.
I WAS BORN
AND CAME INTO THE WORLD
FOR ONE PURPOSE,
TO SPEAK THE TRUTH
WHOEVER BELONGS TO THE TRUTH LISTENS TO ME.

P) AND WHAT IS THE TRUTH.
THAT WAS MY QUESTION
BUT HE NEVER ANSWERED IT.
HE JUST STOOD THERE.
SHOWING ROUGH USAGE
HIS FACE RED FROM SLAPPING
TIRED
HE'D BEEN UP ALL NIGHT.
PROBABLY HUNGRY

BUT HIS EYES
HAD THE SOFT LOOK OF A LAMB
A LAMB ALL RIGHT
HE WAS LIKE A LAMB
BEING LED TO SLAUGHTER




I THOUGHT.
I'LL TRY TO SAVE HIM.
I FELT A KIND OF PITY FOR HIM.
MOST OF THE MEN I'VE CONDEMNED
EITHER CURSE ME
FOR REPRESENTING ROME
OR BEG FOR MERCY.
HE DID NEITHER.

P) I FIND NO REASON
TO CONDEMN THIS MAN
RATHER I WOULD LIKE TO SET HIM FREE
AS A PASSOVER GIFT TO YOU

V) DO NOT GIVE US THIS MAN.
WE WANT NO PART OF THIS MAN.
GIVE US BARABBAS.
BARABBAS IS OUR CHOICE.


I THOUGHT
I SHALL HAVE HIM WHIPPED.
PERHAPS THAT WILL SATISFY
THEIR NEED FOR BLOOD
SO I TOLD MY SOLDIERS
TO WHIP HIM
 BRUTALIZE HIM
BUT NOT TO KILL HIM

WHEN THEY BROUGHT HIM BACK
HE HAD BEEN WHIPPED SEVERELY.
MY SOLDIERS HAD ALSO WRAPPED HIM
IN A PURPLE ROBE
THEY HAD WOVEN A CROWN
OF THORNY BRANCHES
THEN FORCED IT DOWN UPON HIS HEAD

A FITTING GARB FOR A KING
BUT WHEN I LOOKED ON HIM
I SAW NO BEAUTY,
I SAW NO DIGNITY.
I SAW NOTHING ATTRACTIVE ABOUT HIM AT ALL.
CERTAINLY NOT A KING
I WAS REPELLED BY HIS VISAGE
SO THAT I DESPISED HIM
REJECTED HIM
 CONSIDERED HIM UNWORTHY OF NOTICE
I CONSIDERED HIM NOTHING.

THIS HORRIBLE CREATURE THEN
I TOOK BEFORE THE CROWD
AND CRIED OUT
BEHOLD THE MAN
THEY CRIED GIVE US BARABBAS

THEY WERE GETTING UNRULY
SO I SENT HIM TO GOLGATHA

BUT I WAS NOT HAPPY WITH MYSELF.
IN SPITE
I HAD A SIGN MADE
THAT READ
JESUS OF NAZARETH
KING OF THE JEWS
BUT I FELT NO PLEASURE
IN THE SIGN
OR IN HIS DEATH


I FELT NO PLEASURE IN HIS DEATH
HE DIED FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS
HE WOULDN'T HELP ME
HE REMAINED SILENT
HE WOULDN'T TELL ME WHAT WAS TRUE
WHY ARE GOD'S ALWAYS SILENT
WHEN YOU NEED THEM MOST

I USED WATER TO RID MYSELF OF HIM BUT HE WOULDN'T GO AWAY

TRUTH AND WATER I NEED THEM BOTH

TRUTH AND WATER
I NEED THEM
DO YOU NEED THEM
DO YOU HAVE THEM
DO YOU KNOW THE TRUTH
DO YOU HAVE THE TRUTH

DO YOU NEED WATER (SPRINKLE WATER)
HERE IS WATER
HERE IS WATER

BUT WILL SOMEONE TELL ME
WILL ANYONE TELL ME
BEFORE THE NIGHT COMES ON
BEFORE THE DARKNESS FALLS
WILL ANYONE TELL ME
WHAT IS THE TRUTH
WHAT IS THE TRUTH
WHAT IS THE TRUTH

****LIGHT FADE**

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A DAY LIKE THIS (Luke 17:5-10)

Sometimes, when everything goes wrong;

When days are short and nights are long;

When wash-day brings so dull a sky

That not a single thing will dry.

And when the kitchen chimney smokes,

And when there's naught so ' queer' as folks!

When friends deplore my faded youth,

And when the baby cuts a tooth.

While John, the baby last but one,

Clings round my skirts till day is done;

And fat, good-tempered Jane is glum,

And butcher's man forgets to come.

Sometimes I say on days like these,

I get a sudden gleam of bliss

Not on some sunny day of ease,

He'll come ... but on a day like this! " 

anon 

MEDITATION BY FRANK VOLLMER

REFRAIN: WHEN WERE YOU HUNGRY OR NAKED OR POOR? 

WHEN DID YOU ASK FOR WATER?

I WAS AT DACHAU AND AUSCHWITZ 

I AM AT HANOI AND SAIGON

I AM BURIED IN EGYPT AND ISRAEL

I AM SICK OF WAR

. 

I STAND WITH HUNGRY EYES

AND WATCH SURPLUS FOOD GO UP IN FLAMES

I AM A MIGRANT WORKER'S CHILD

STARVING IN THE LAND OF PLENTY

I AM THE BASTARD CHILD OF A BASTARD CHILD

I AM GHETTO BRED WITH TORCH AND STONE

NO ONE LISTENS UNLESS I AM VIOLENT

NO ONE CARES UNTIL THEY FEEL MY HATE

I AM AN OLD PERSON IGNORED AND ALONE

I AN A YOUNG MAN IN THE GUTTER ON DRUGS

I AM THE CHILD TAUGHT HATE BY MY ELDERS

I AM LOST AND DO NOT KNOW THE WAY

IT NIGHT HAVE BEEN A DAY LIKE THIS THAT I WAS HUNGRY

A DAY LIKE THIS THAT I WAS POOR

A DAY LIKE THIS WHEN I TRIED TO HELP

A DAY LIKE THIS WHEN MY CHURCH BEGAN

IT NIGHT HAVE BEEN A DAY LIKE THIS WHEN IT ALL BEGAN

A DAY LIKE THIS

WHEN HE NAMED PETER... ROCK

WHEN HE GAVE IT BIRTH

KNOWING THE BIRTH PAINS WOULD NOT CEASE TILL IT WAS DEAD

TWELVE DIFFERENT MEN IN AGE AND WISDOM

TWELVE DIFFERENT MEN IN DREAMS AND HOPES

TWELVE DIFFERENT MEN RECEIVING TRUTH

TWELVE DIFFERENT WAYS OF TELLING IT BACK

TWELVE DIFFERENT MEN 

IT NIGHT HAVE BEEN A DAY LIKE THIS

THAT SATAN TIPTOED UP

"DUMMY

ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT AGAIN

ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES 

YOUR FATHER DID

ARE YOU GOING TO FOUND A CHURCH? 

AS USUAL SATAN HAD SHOWN GOOD SENSE

HE'D TOLD THE TRUTH

FOR EVEN CHRIST WAS FINDING FAULT WITH WHAT HE SAW 

I DO NOT WANT SACRIFICES BUT KINDNESS MATTHEW 12

THESE PEOPLE HONOR ME WITH THEIR WORDS

BUT THEIR HEART IS REALLY FAR FROM ME

IT IS NO USE FOR THEM TO WORSHIP ME

BECAUSE THEY TEACH MAN MADE COMMANDMENTS

AS THOUGH

THEY WERE GOD'S RULES MATTHEW 15

THEY FIX UP HEAVY LOADS

AND TIE THEM ON MEN'S BACKS

YET THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO LIFT A FINGER

TO HELP CARRY THESE LOADS MATTHEW 23

YOU ARE LIKE WHITEWASHED TOMBS

FINE ON THE OUTSIDE

BUT FULL OF DEAD MEN'S BONES MATTHEW 23

I HAVE NOT COME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW

BUT TO GIVE IT REAL MEANING MATTHEW 5

THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED

TURNED OUT TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT STONE MATTHEW 21

MY WEDDING FEAST IS READY

BUT THE PEOPLE I INVITED DID NOT DESERVE IT

GO OUT INTO THE STREETS

AND INVITE WHOM YOU FIND MATTHEW 23

SO HERE WE ARE

WALL FLOWERS OF THE LORD

THE LATE COMERS

THE PEOPLE HE INVITED

WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD COME

WHAT WERE SOME OF HIS THOUGHTS ABOUT HIS CHURCH

WHAT WERE SOME OF THE RULES

YOU HAVE HEARD IT WAS SAID

LOVE YOUR FRIENDS HATE YOUR ENEMIES

BUT I TELL YOU LOVE YOUR ENEMIES

PRAY FOR THOSE WHO MISTREAT YOU MATTHEW 5

WHEN YOU PRAY SAY

OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN

MAY YOUR NAME BE KEPT HOLY

MAY YOUR KINGDOM COME

MAY YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

GIVE US TODAY THE FOOD WE NEED

FOR GIVE US THE WRONGS THAT WE HAVE DONE

AS WE FORGIVE THE WRONGS THAT OTHERS HAVE DONE US

DO NOT BRING US TO HARD TESTING

BUT KEEP US SAFE FROM THE EVIL ONE MATTHEW 6

IF ONE OF YOU WANTS TO BE GREAT

HE MUST BE A SERVANT OF THE REST

LIKE THE SON OF MAN

WHO DID NOT COME TO BE SERVED

BUT TO SERVE

AND GIVE HIS LIFE TO REDEEM MANY PEOPLE MATTHEW 20

DID HE NOT KNOW WHEN HE LOOKED PETER IN THE EYE

THAT HE WAS A MAN

COULD HE NOT HEAR THE DISTANT ECHO OF COCK CROW

WAS HE NOT AWARE OF THE IMPETUOUSNESS

THAT MADE HIM WALK ON WATER

OR THE SELF DOUBTS THAT LET HIM SINK

DID HE NOT SEE

WEATHERED FACE AND WEATHERED SOUL

NO STRANGER TO OUR JOYS OR SORROW

NO SCHOLAR HE

POET MAYBE

ONE IN TUNE WITH SEA AND TIDES AND WEATHER

THE CYCLE OF SEASONS THE RUNNING OF FISH

THE PATIENCE OF THE FISHERMAN

I WONDER IF THAT'S WHY HE PICKED HIM

IF HE SAW IN HIM THE SAME WORKMAN'S PRIDE

THAT JOSEPH HAD

IF HE SAW IN PETER'S WORDS AND ACTIONS

MEMORIES OF JOSEPH

IF HE DID NOT INSTINCTIVELY TRUST HIM

A MAN MINDFUL OF HIS NETS AND BOATS

MINDFUL OF HIS FRIENDS AND FAMILY

WHO WOULD BE CAREFUL OF LITTLE THINGS

THE NECESSARY UNPRETENTIOUS DOING THINGS

NOT PLAYING FOR THE BALCONY

JUST DOING HIS JOB

THIS MAN HE CHOOSE

I GIVE TO YOU THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN MATTHEW 16

PETER - DO YOU LOVE ME

FEED MY LAMBS

PETER - DO YOU LOVE ME

FEED MY SHEEP

PETER - DO YOU LOVE ME

FOLLOW ME 

JOHN 21

AND YOU PETER

WOULD YOU LEAVE ME

TO WHOM WOULD I GO LORD

YOU HAVE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL LIFE 

JOHN 6

PUSH OUT THE BOATS

AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS

BUT MASTER WE HAVE LABORED ALL NIGHT

AND CAUGHT NOTHING

BUT WE WILL TRY AGAIN 

LUKE 5

I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS OF MEN

I WILL MAKE YOU HARVESTERS IN THE FIELD

YOU WILL TEND THE VINE AND THE FIG TREE

THE MUSTARD SEED THE COCKLE THE WHEAT

SHALL BE YOUR CONCERN

I WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS OF MEN

HE'D PICKED A FISHERMAN TO WORK IN HIS GARDEN

TO TEND THE SEED HE'D PLANT IN THE SPRING

STRUCK DOWN IN THE SPRINGTIME

THRUST DOWN IN THE EARTH

PLOWED UNDER BY EVIL

HE'D PICKED A FISHERMAN TO TEND TO HIS GARDEN

TO WATCH OVER THE GROWTH OF THE SEED

FROM THE SEED TO THE PLANT

FROM PLANT TO THE FLOWER

TO THE SEED TO THE PLANT TO THE FLOWER

ALWAYS RENEWING

THROUGH CYCLE OF SEASONS

ALWAYS THE SEED DOWN THE AGES

ALWAYS THE SEED TELLING THE MESSAGE

GOD IS HE LOVES HE CARES

DOWN THE AGES ALWAYS THE MESSAGE

ALWAYS THE SEED THE PLANT OR THE FLOWER

ALWAYS THE SEED

TENDED BY GARDENERS POETS FOOLS OR BY THIEVES

ALWAYS THE SEED

IF YOU LOVE ME - KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS

I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS

I WILL SEND YOU THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

TO STAY WITH YOU FOREVER

I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS

I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS

I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ORPHANS

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DAY LIKE THIS WHEN IT ALL BEGAN

A DAY LIKE THIS WHEN WE TRIED AGAIN

Stage directions;

Poetry read by narrator.

Bible verses by various members of the congregation.

Opening verses like a Sunday psalm.