Two inspirational efforts that should touch your heart, and more importantly, your soul...

Great Prayer of Sabeth

What can I say about the Great Prayer of Sabeth? Never enough, I think. The picture represents St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, an early 19th-century Carmelite nun who continued to write her many prayers through the debilitating pain of a terminal disease.

I believe no one who hears this particular prayer will fail to be blessed by not only the exquisite beauty of her words, but even more so by the level of humility, submission, and adoration that ring throughout this short “Love song to our Lord”. I can only think “geographically” when I ponder such humble devotion—how far, how many mountains and valleys I’d have to negotiate to even approach such submissive depths and truly incorporate them into my daily life. I often play the prayer and attempt to “make the prayer mine” and find a great peace when I succeed. Perhaps you will too.

I decided early on to record it. It is truly ecumenical, a prayer for all Christians—words written in French by a Catholic nun, recorded in English a century later by an Orthodox narrator, with a Lutheran Choir background.

If you listen, open your heart, and pray with her, you may find the same blessing I have.

That is my prayer.

Waiting at the Last Stop (in two parts; pause of 3 seconds in between)

I wrote and recorded Waiting at the Last Stop in an attempt to encourage caring folks to visit the lonely and oft-forgotten elderly in nursing homes around the country. In our current times, though personal visits may become impossible, a card, a letter, a phone call could mean so much to some family member you may have quite innocently forgotten in the rush of daily concerns.