Sight is another way we experience the promise. These are the way we say who we are to ourselves and the world. This is our Holy City, sometimes with steeples and towers, sometimes with slopes and huts, but always saying something about the ideal human community. Liturgy is the repetition of important words, sounds, week after week, year after year, until their constancy is as powerful as their meaning. The lyric word has been our great gift to each other and the world.
Lyric words are lyrics, the words of songs, words made music.
Nothing evokes the promise more for us than singing. Like dance it is rhythm, pattern, play and pleasure. The music that moves our bodies also carries our voices. In song we feel a connection that cannot be fully described. It is this sensation that is often the best approximation of what the Promise is really about.