Join Us for Shabbat Services 04-24-20 – 04-25-20
The Promise Lyrics: S. Gordin/Music :C. McCarn
There is promise as the sun sets low
The week now comes to its close
The candles are lit and they shine
Inside a feeling of peace at this time
My mind drifts back to the week that’s gone
Things I wished I had said or maybe done
But growth happens no tears need be shed
If I’ve learned to handle what’s ahead
Shabbat is time for me to rest
To extend to my family and to my guests
My time and my ear and what I guess
Should allow me to grow to be my best
I hold the cup now say the prayer
Drink the wine and do I dare
Hold a grudge full of strife
Or be renewed and
refreshed in my life?
It’s Shabbat now
time to praise/time to think
Time to rest/time to grow
It begins now/as the sun
as the sun/ as the sun sets low
Believe Lyrics: S.Gordin/ Music C. McCarn
This life that I chose or did it choose me
It falls apart and now do I see
That somewhere down the line
I was blinded by ennui
And somehow down the line
I forgot to believe
Sitting in this hole I look out to see
A world outside much to my relief
Birds, fresh air, and the happy buzzing of the bees
And all of this makes me think
Why didn’t I stop before to believe?
My fathers fought in wars to be free
Against the odds and against tyranny
Through time and again throughout history
There’s a reason to look outside
ourselves to believe
Bridge:
So look inside
it’s not that hard
No need to look very far
Deep down inside we know we need
in good times and bad a reason to believe
One day the story it will be told
About the time we learned ten fold
That no matter how well off
we think we may be
We’re one heartbeat away beat away from
a reason to believe