Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Matthew 5:4 It has been said that grief is the price of love, which means that all who love will grieve. There is no way to go through life without loss. And doing without love is no way to go through life. So accepting grief…
Eulogy for My Mother
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. Proverbs 31:25 My mother died during open heart surgery on January 31, 2024, completing a remarkable life. As the oldest of her four children, it was my privilege to share a eulogy at her Memorial Service on February 8th. I have…
My Bible Reading Plan for 2024
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My Bible Reading Plan for 2022
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Cohen’s ‘If It Be Your Will’: Song, Prayer, Psalm
This is a great reflection on a very moving song/poem/prayer/psalm by Leonard Cohen, “If It Be Your Will.”
Leonard Cohen described If It Be Your Will ‘as more of a prayer’ than a song during his introduction to its performance by the Webb Sisters and Neil Larson. Here I suggest that it is not only a prayer but more specifically a psalm.
Even the title is highly suggestive of a key feature of psalmody—an absolute trust in God. As the song unfolds this trust, we see that this commitment to God is founded in a creature-Creator relationship, as the singer’s finitude is sublimely conveyed:
If it be your will, that I speak no more
And my voice be still, as it was before
The frailty of the singer is in little doubt given their own metaphorical claim to be a ‘broken hill’. Is it pushing our reflection too far to imagine this as an oblique reference and contrast to the ‘holy hill’ (Psalm 2:6; 3:4; 15:1; 24:3; 43:3…
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