A Wee Celtic ditty
When I started the Spiritual Formations course, my fingers started playing this song on the piano. I can't tell you if it is a tune I have made up or if it is an old Irish song haunting me from my parent's eight track player or a combination of both.
I wasn't going to use the tune for anything but a strange thing happened at work. A man, who is always there but I'd never seen heard me singing it as I rinsed out magotty garbage bins. He happend to be an Irish man from county Cork. He asked me what I was singing. I said, I don't know, do you know? He said yes its an old Irish hiking song and he sang a melody similar with words unfamiliar. He said he likes to hear me because I am always happy, which opened the door for me to talk about where my joy comes from.
I tried to maximize the celtic feeling to the melody with a "harp" application on the keyboard. Its a very simple prayer to keep me/us growing. Sometimes, growing feels lost or dizzy. But no matter what the cost I want to grow as a person in Christ anyway. In order to do that I need to be rooted in God's word, I need to drink from the life giving water of community, I need to move in response to the wind or Holy Spirit's leading and I need to be fired up with passion. And that in a nut shell is all this wee celtic ditty is about