Find a stillness, hold a stillness, let the stillness carry me.
Find the silence, hold the silence, let the silence carry me.
In the the spirit, by the spirit, with the spirit giving power,
I will find true harmony.
The song speaks to one of my favorite parts of our weekly services at Fox Valley UU Fellowship: the silent meditation or prayer. The Buddhist gong that rings at the beginning and end carries me in and out of the silence and challenges me to find an inner stillness. I feel that the entire service revolves around this moment of quiet, the eye in the storm of ideas, sights, joys, concerns and sounds.
As it turns out, it's deceptively easy to play a simple version of "Find a stillness" on guitar, so its one of the songs our pilgrim group will take with us to Transylvania. We may even sing it in church there, as three of us have been part of our choir. It seems fitting that we carry this song back to its home, as a bond between our congregations, as the stillness is a common place for us all.
