This week instead of a prayer, we have chosen a beautiful song that Garth wrote which tells the story of the words that were said to Stephen Lawrence as he was dying, by Louise and Conner Taafe. Garth had been given some information by a local radio station which he turned into this song. Archbishop Sentamu (then Bishop of Stepney) asked Garth to join him and Doreen and Neville Lawrence and some friends at the place where Stephen had been killed.
'We can't sing up there' is a comment made after far too many church services. And it's true: research shows that for various reasons the human singing voice has dropped over the last century.
I work from home, so on a song writing day, I will settle down with my piano, keyboard and computer. The first I love, the second I tolerate and the third I loathe but couldn't work without!
We haven't been practising the limbo in the KM office this week!... but thinking generally about hymns in lower keys and a resource that we published back in 2011 for which we've always received postive feedback.