JUNE 25, 2010
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07:48:54
07:25:40       >> GREET THE MORNING IN SONG.
07:48:56       WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING
07:48:57       TOGETHER SO I INVITE YOU TO
07:48:58       DRAW NEAR.
07:48:59       DRAW NEAR.
07:49:01       WILL YOU BE MY ECHO, I'LL BE
07:49:06       THE SINGER YOU BE MY MOUNTAIN.
07:49:11       ¶
07:49:31       >> YOU KNOW THIS SONG PERHAPS.
07:49:33       LET'S SING IT THROUGH 3 TIMES
07:49:35       IN UNISON.
07:49:36       IT IS AROUND AND IT WILL BE THE
07:49:38       PROCESSIONAL WITH WHICH WE CALL
07:49:40       THE LIVING ANIMALS THAT ARE OUR
07:49:43       COMPANIONS.
07:49:44       WILL YOU SING WITH ME.
07:49:47       ¶
07:50:18       FRIENDS ON THIS SIDE.
07:50:23       ¶ KEEP SINGING ALL LIVING
07:50:52       THINGS THAT HAVE A VOICE.
07:50:53       ALL LIVING THINGS THAT HAVE A
07:50:54       SONG WE CALL YOU TO COME.
07:50:56       COME JOIN THE FAMILY THAT SINGS
07:50:59       TOGETHER.
07:50:59       SING WITH YOUR WINGS.
07:51:01       SING WITH YOUR HANDS.
07:51:03       SING WITH YOUR VOICES.
07:51:05       SING YOUR SONG.
07:52:59       [APPLAUSE]
07:53:05       >> WHAT IF WE THINK OF OUR
07:53:06       CONGREGATION AS A FAMILIAR LIVE
07:53:08       FAMILIES WHO SINGS TOGETHER?
07:53:09       WHAT IF WE THINK OF OUR WORLD
07:53:12       AS A GREAT CHOIR OF NATIONS
07:53:15       THAT SINGS TOGETHER?
07:53:17       HOW THEN DO WE RESPOND TO THE
07:53:18       SAD KNOWLEDGE THAT THE JOY OF
07:53:20       SHARED PUBLIC SINGING IS FADING
07:53:23       FROM OUR COMMON LIFE?
07:53:25       WILL WE SIMPLY SHAKE OUR HEADS
07:53:27       AND GRIEVE THE LOSS OF MUSIC

07:53:30       MADE TOGETHER BY PEOPLE, OR
07:53:31       WILL WE KEEP THE MUSIC ALIVE
07:53:33       INSIDE OUR CHURCHES?
07:53:34       WILL WE LEARN SONGS FROM OUR
07:53:36       ELDERS AND TEACH THEM TO OUR
07:53:38       CHILDREN?
07:53:39       WILL WE BE A FAMILY THAT SINGS
07:53:41       TOGETHER?
07:53:42       AND STAYS TOGETHER?
07:53:44       IS THERE A CALL FOR OUR FAITH
07:53:48       TO STAGE A SINGING REVOLUTION?
07:53:52       WE KINDLE THIS FLAME IN
07:53:55       CELEBRATION OF VOICES OF OUR
07:53:56       PAST AND THE BRIGHT HOPE OF OUR
07:53:59       FAITH AND FUTURE.
07:54:00       COME, LET US WORSHIP TOGETHER.
07:54:12       LISTEN.
07:54:13       THIS IS THE BEGINNING.
07:54:14       AND WHEN WE GET TO THE END, WE
07:54:14       WILL KNOW MORE THAN WE DO NOW.
07:54:22       >> IN A NORTHERN LAND OF PINE
07:54:22       FORESTS AND CLOVER FIELDS AT
07:54:22       THE EDGE OF A COLD, DEEP SEA,
07:54:22       THERE LIVED A NATION OF PEOPLE.
07:54:36       THE PEOPLE LIVED TOGETHER IN
07:54:36       VILLAGES, ALL THE GENERATIONS
07:54:36       TOGETHER.
07:54:39       AND OUR QUESTION IS THIS:
07:54:39       WHAT DID THOSE PEOPLE HEAR?
07:54:45       >> THE PEOPLE HEARD THEIR
07:54:45       VILLAGE SINGING, SINGING THEIR
07:54:45       OWN SONGS IN THEIR OWN
07:54:45       LANGUAGE.
07:54:51       EVERY DAY, THE CHILDREN SANG,
07:54:51       THE GROWNUPS SANG, THE ELDERS
07:54:51       SANG.
07:54:59       THEY SANG IN THE HOME, THEY
07:54:59       SANG IN THE FIELDS, THEY SANG
07:54:59       IN THE CHURCH.
07:55:06       THEY SANG EACH YEAR AT A GREAT
07:55:09       SINGING FESTIVAL WHERE PEOPLE
07:55:12       CAME TOGETHER TO SING THE SAME
07:55:13       SONGS.
07:55:14       THEY SANG SONGS OF LOVE FOR ONE
07:55:18       ANOTHER AND THEIR HOMELAND.
07:55:19       THE WHOLE VILLAGE WAS LIKE A
07:55:21       FAMILY WHEN IT SANG TOGETHER.
07:55:25       UNTIL ONE DARK DAY.
07:55:33       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
07:55:38       >> THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUNDS

07:55:38       OF WAR.
07:55:40       THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF
07:55:40       SOLDIERS MARCHING, THEY HEARD
07:55:40       GUNFIRE, THEY HEARD CRYING.
07:55:46       THEY HEARD THESE TERRIBLE
07:55:46       SOUNDS FOR MANY YEARS.
07:55:52       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
07:55:56       >> THE PEOPLE HEARD SILENCE.
07:56:00       THERE WAS NO SINGING, NOT FOR A
07:56:00       LONG TIME.
07:56:04       THEY KNEW THOUGH, TO LISTEN
07:56:04       BEYOND THE SILENCE.
07:56:08       THERE, THEY HEARD THE ANIMALS
07:56:08       THAT SHARED THEIR HOMELAND, THE
07:56:08       BIRDS IN THE AIR AND THE
07:56:08       CRICKETS IN THE FOREST AND THE
07:56:08       WHALES IN THE SEA -- THEY WERE
07:56:08       STILL SINGING.
07:56:24       THE PEOPLE DID NOT SING, BUT
07:56:24       THEY HEARD THE ANIMALS' SONGS.
07:56:27       INTO THE SILENCE LEFT BY THE
07:56:27       SOLDIERS CAME NEW PEOPLE, NEW
07:56:27       PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE
07:56:27       IMPORTANT AND RIGHT, NEW PEOPLE
07:56:27       WHO THOUGHT THEMSELVES
07:56:27       POWERFUL.
07:56:39       NOW, THEY WERE IN CHARGE.
07:56:42       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
07:56:47       BLANK
07:56:48       ¶
07:56:48       ¶
07:56:52       THE PEOPLE HEARD SOMEONE ELSE'S
07:56:52       MUSIC, SONGS IN A STRANGE
07:56:52       LANGUAGE.
07:56:56       THIS NEW MUSIC, NOT THEIR OWN,
07:56:56       FILLED THEIR SCHOOLS AND
07:56:56       VILLAGE SQUARES.
07:57:03       THE VOICE OF THE POWERFUL AND
07:57:05       IMPORTANT PEOPLE TOLD THEM TO
07:57:06       SING THIS MUSIC OR SING NOTHING
07:57:07       AT ALL.
07:57:11       "BREAK THESE RULES, AND YOU
07:57:11       WILL GO TO JAIL -- OR WORSE,"
07:57:11       SAID THE VOICE ON THE RADIO.
07:57:19       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
07:57:24       >> THEY HEARD SADNESS.
07:57:25       THEY HEARD LONGING.
07:57:28       THEY WORKED IN FIELDS THAT WERE
07:57:28       NO LONGER THEIR OWN.
07:57:31       THEIR CHURCHES WERE SHUT AND

07:57:31       LOCKED.
07:57:35       FAMILIES WERE HUNGRY.
07:57:37       FAMILIES WERE AFRAID.
07:57:41       THEY LONGED FOR FREEDOM, THE
07:57:41       FREEDOM TO GROW THEIR OWN FOOD,
07:57:41       TO WORSHIP IN THEIR OWN WAY, TO
07:57:41       SING THEIR OWN SONGS.
07:57:55       >> SOMETIMES, THEY THOUGHT THEY
07:57:55       HEARD SOMETHING ELSE COMING
07:57:55       FROM THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS HOMES
07:57:55       IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT:
07:57:55       THEY THOUGHT THEY HEARD THE OLD
07:58:07       SONGS, THE SONGS OF LOVE FOR
07:58:08       ONE ANOTHER AND FOR HOMELAND,
07:58:11       SUNG QUIET AND LOW.
07:58:15       MAYBE THEY HEARD THE OLD SONGS,
07:58:15       OR MAYBE IT WAS SIMPLY THE
07:58:15       SOUND OF THEIR OWN HEART
07:58:15       REMEMBERING.
07:58:23       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
07:58:25       THEY HEARD A CALL TO THE
07:58:25       SINGING FESTIVAL.
07:58:34       FAMILIES HAD ALWAYS GONE TO THE
07:58:34       SINGING FESTIVAL TOGETHER, BUT
07:58:34       NOW IT WAS DIFFERENT.
07:58:37       THEY WONDERED, "SHOULD WE GO?
07:58:39       IT'S NOT EVEN OUR FESTIVAL ANY
07:58:39       MORE."
07:58:42       BUT THEY WENT, NEARLY A QUARTER
07:58:42       OF THE ENTIRE NATION WENT TO
07:58:42       HEAR THE SINGING.
07:58:47       THEY LISTENED TO THEIR OWN
07:58:47       FRIENDS AND FAMILY, TO THEIR
07:58:47       NEIGHBORS' CHILDREN, TO THE
07:58:47       VILLAGE ELDERS, SINGING THOSE
07:58:47       SONGS OF THE OTHER PEOPLE.
07:58:57       THEY HEARD THEIR OWN POLITE
07:58:57       APPLAUSE, AND UNDER THAT
07:58:57       APPLAUSE THEY HEARD THEIR
07:58:57       NATION'S SADNESS.
07:59:07       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
07:59:11       >> THEY HEARD SILENCE, JUST FOR
07:59:11       A MOMENT.
07:59:14       THE FESTIVAL WAS OVER.
07:59:18       FROM THE NEARBY FOREST THEY
07:59:19       COULD HEAR THE ANIMALS.
07:59:21       THE ANIMALS WERE SINGING.
07:59:23       EACH ANIMAL SANG ITS OWN SONG.
07:59:27       THE MOOSE SANG ITS MOOSE SONG.
07:59:31       THE FROG SANG THE FROG SONG.

07:59:33       THE LUMES DIDN'T SING THE
07:59:38       CRICKET SONG.
07:59:39       THE LUNE SANG THE SONG THAT
07:59:43       THEY SANG WHEN THEY FIRST
07:59:45       CALLED THOSE BLUE LAKES HOME.
07:59:47       THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE WERE
07:59:48       STIRRED.
07:59:49       SOMETHING WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
07:59:51       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
07:59:59       >> THEY HEARD THE CHOIR SING
08:00:00       THE FIRST NOTE OF ONE MORE
08:00:02       SONG.
08:00:11       IT ONLY TOOK A FEW NOTES FOR
08:00:11       EVERY HEART TO REMEMBER THIS
08:00:11       SONG.
08:00:15       IT WAS THEIR OWN SONG.
08:00:02       THE 20,000 VOICES OF THE CHOIR
08:00:02       WERE SINGING THE SONG OF LOVE
08:00:02       FOR ONE ANOTHER AND FOR THEIR
08:00:02       HOMELAND.
08:01:18       AFTER ONE VERSE THEY PAUSED.
08:01:21       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR?
08:01:23       THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF PEOPLE
08:01:23       TAKING ONE ANOTHER'S HAND.
08:01:29       THEN, IN THE DISTANCE, THEY
08:01:29       HEARD THE SOUND RUMBLING TANKS.
08:01:33       THEY HAD BROKEN THE RULES.
08:01:36       THEY WERE AFRAID.
08:01:39       BUT INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO THE
08:01:39       TANKS, THEY LISTENED TO THEIR
08:01:39       HEARTS.
08:01:51       AND THEN WHAT DID THEY HEAR
08:01:55       >> THEY HEARD THE SOUND OF
08:01:55       300,000 PEOPLE SINGING.
08:02:00       THEY HEARD EVERY CHILD.
08:02:02       THEY HEARD EVERY ELDER.
08:02:06       THEY HEARD EVERY PERSON SINGING
08:02:06       THEIR SONG OF LOVE FOR ONE
08:02:06       ANOTHER AND FOR THEIR HOMELAND.
08:02:12       THE WHOLE GATHERING OF PEOPLE
08:02:12       WERE LIKE A GREAT FAMILY,
08:02:12       SINGING THEIR SONG TOGETHER.
08:02:20       THEY WERE SINGING A REVOLUTION.
08:02:29       >> WHEN 300,000 PEOPLE ARE
08:02:29       SINGING TOGETHER YOU CAN HEAR
08:02:29       IT ALL ACROSS TIME AND SPACE.
08:02:23       THE SONG COULD BE HEARD IN
08:02:38       SELMA, ALABAMA.
08:02:41       THEY HEARD IT OUT IN THE
08:02:43       CALIFORNIA'S GRAPE FIELDS.

08:02:47       THEY HEARD THE SONG IN INDIA.
08:02:47       THEY HEARD IT IN SOWETO
08:02:47       TOWNSHIP AND ON THE COURTHOUSE
08:02:47       STEPS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
08:02:51       THE GREAT BLUE WHALES HEARD THE
08:02:51       SONG IN THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN
08:02:55       AND THE CRICKETS HEARD IT DEEP
08:02:59       IN THE PINE FOREST.
08:03:01       THE EARTH AT THAT TIME WAS A
08:03:06       FAMILY THAT SHARED ONE SONG.
08:03:08       THIS STORY IS TRUE.
08:03:14       WHEN 300,000 SANG A SONG IN THE
08:03:14       FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC OF
08:03:14       ESTONIA, WHEN THE VOICES OF
08:03:14       CHILDREN AND PARENTS AND
08:03:14       GRANDPARENTS WERE RAISED
08:03:14       TOGETHER IN SONG, THE WHOLE
08:03:14       WORLD COULD HEAR IT.
08:03:28       ICELAND HEARD IT AND DECLARED
08:03:28       THE PEOPLE TO BE STEWARDS OF
08:03:28       THEIR OWN NATION AND KEEPERS OF
08:03:28       THEIR OWN SONG.
08:03:36       THE SOVIETS HEARD THE SONG, AND
08:03:36       THEY KNEW THAT BECAUSE THE
08:03:36       CHILDREN WERE SINGING THAT
08:03:36       SONG, IT WOULD ALWAYS BE
08:03:36       STRONGER THAN THE MUSIC THEY
08:03:36       HAD TRIED TO BRING.
08:03:47       WE ARE PART OF THAT SINGING
08:03:47       FAMILY.
08:03:53       << WE SING THE GREAT SONG WITH
08:03:53       THEM.
08:03:55       WITH THE AIMS AND THE TREES,
08:03:55       WITH THE ELDERS AND THE
08:03:55       CHILDREN.
08:04:00       IT IS THE SONG OF LOVE FOR ONE
08:04:00       ANOTHER AND FOR OUR HOMELAND,
08:04:00       THE EARTH.
08:04:08       << NOW WE ARE AT THE END.
08:04:10       LET US RAISE OUR VOICES
08:04:10       TOGETHER AND WE WILL BE MORE
08:04:10       THAN WE ARE NOW.
08:04:18       ¶
08:05:05       ¶
08:06:01       ¶
08:07:01       ¶
08:07:29       >> HOLY ONE, SILENCE, MYSTERY
08:07:33       AND SOURCE OF ALL SONGS BE
08:07:37       PRESENT IN OUR GATHERING IN AND
08:07:40       IN OUR GOING OUT.

08:07:41       MAY WE KNOW FULLY THE POWER OF
08:07:46       OUR VOICES.
08:07:47       MAY WE INVITE SINGERS OF EVERY
08:07:50       AGE INTO OUR SINGING.
08:07:53       MAY WE LEARN AND TEACH SONGS
08:07:55       ACROSS THE GENERATIONS THAT OUR
08:07:59       VOICES AND HANDS MIGHT UNITE
08:08:01       AND TRANSFORM OUR WORLD.
08:08:03       WE WOULD BE YOUR FAMILY THAT
08:08:05       SINGS TOGETHER.
08:08:07       SINGING TOGETHER FOR OUR
08:08:09       FULLER, MORE LOVING LIFE.
08:08:12       MAY IT BE SO AND AMEN.
08:08:14       FRIENDS, ALL LIVING THINGS, GO
08:08:19       OUT IN SONG.
08:08:25       ¶
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