Eurythemes Workshop - "Prayers from the Ark" (November 16, 1975)

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-	There are two changes in tonight's program.	0:10
	Our violinist will be Betsy Hooper	0:13
	and Reed Thompson will be playing the flute	0:16
	in "Watching a Million Birds."	0:18
	(smooth music)	0:23
	(smooth lyrical music)	0:32
	Lord,	1:03
	what a menagerie	1:05
	between your downpour	1:09
	and these animal cries,	1:13
	one cannot hear oneself think.	1:17
	The days are long, Lord.	1:23
	All this water makes my heart sink.	1:29
	When will the ground cease to rock under my feet?	1:38
	The days are long.	1:46
	Master Raven has not come back.	1:51
	Here is your dove.	1:57
	Will she find us a twig of hope?	2:01
	The day days are long, Lord.	2:07
	Guide your ark to safety,	2:13
	some Zenith of rest,	2:19
	where we can escape, at last, from this brute slavery.	2:23
	The day days are long, Lord.	2:33
	Lead me	2:38
	until I reach	2:42
	the shore of your covenant.	2:46
	Amen.	2:55
	(lyrical music)	3:15
	(gentle music)	3:33
	(smooth lyrical music)	4:06
	(gentle music)	4:29
	(smooth lyrical music)	5:00
	(smooth lyrical music)	5:32
	(smooth lyrical music)	5:52
	(smooth lyrical music)	6:23
	Do not forget, Lord,	6:33
	it is I who make the sun rise.	6:37
	I am your servant,	6:41
	but with the dignity of my calling,	6:46
	I need some glitter and ostentation.	6:52
	No bless, oblige.	6:58
	All the same, I am your servant only.	7:02
	Do not forget, Lord,	7:09
	I make the sun rise.	7:13
	Amen.	7:16
	(smooth lyrical music)	7:21
	(smooth lyrical music)	7:49
	(violin strings plucking)	7:53
	(smooth lyrical music)	7:59
	Lord, I am the cat.	8:05
	It is not exactly	8:10
	that I have something to ask of you.	8:14
	No.	8:19
	I ask nothing of anyone.	8:21
	But if you have, by some chance,	8:27
	in some celestial barn,	8:33
	a little white mouse or a saucer of milk,	8:37
	I know someone who would relish them.	8:43
	Wouldn't you like, someday,	8:51
	to put a curse the whole race of dogs?	8:54
	If so, I should say amen.	9:01
	(violin strings plucking)	9:13
	(smooth music)	9:23
	(smooth lyrical music)	9:48
	To build, Lord,	9:56
	that is a vocation.	9:59
	I speak of my passion,	10:03
	architecture, of course.	10:07
	One should build on a rock.	10:12
	But what Phillip is there in doing anything easy?	10:17
	My element is to struggle.	10:25
	It is water that allures	10:29
	and tells me to build a safe and steady house	10:33
	on the moving stream of a river,	10:39
	moving as life does, swiftly.	10:42
	What an adventure?	10:47
	With patience and ingenuity,	10:51
	one can do anything,	10:56
	but I am one who loves to swim against the current,	10:59
	to build something lasting,	11:06
	and all my own work at the very core of life.	11:11
	Oh yes, Lord.	11:20
	If you would give me some of your living water,	11:24
	I would build your paradise for you.	11:33
	Amen.	11:40
	(smooth lyrical music)	11:57
	Where was I?	12:22
	Oh, yes.	12:24
	This flower,	12:26
	this sun.	12:27
	Thank you.	12:30
	Your world is beautiful.	12:31
	This scent of roses.	12:36
	Where was I?	12:40
	A drop of dew rolls to sparkle in a lilly's heart.	12:43
	I have to go.	12:49
	Where?	12:51
	I do not know.	12:53
	The wind has painted fancies on my wings.	12:55
	Fancies.	13:00
	Where was I?	13:03
	Oh yes, Lord.	13:05
	I had something to tell you.	13:09
	Amen.	13:13
	(smooth lyrical music)	13:26
	(quacky music)	13:30
	Dear God, give us a flood of water.	13:45
	Let it rain tomorrow and always.	13:52
	Give us plenty of little slugs	13:57
	and other luscious things to eat.	14:01
	Protect all folk who quack	14:05
	and everyone who knows how to swim.	14:09
	Amen.	14:14
	(quacky music)	14:21
	(smooth music)	14:23
	(smooth lyrical music)	14:44
	Lord,	15:17
	your deep has closed over me.	15:19
	Am I some small Lucifer,	15:26
	fallen from heaven	15:30
	and left to be tormented by the waves?	15:33
	Look, Lord,	15:40
	I seem a star of blood.	15:44
	I try to remember my lost royalty,	15:51
	but in vain,	15:58
	creeping over the sand,	16:01
	I spread; my star points wide	16:06
	and a dream,	16:13
	dream,	16:16
	dream.	16:20
	Lord, an angel could root me up from the bottom of the sea	16:23
	and set me back in your sky.	16:31
	Oh, one day,	16:38
	could that be?	16:42
	Amen.	16:46
	(smooth lyrical music)	16:59
	(smooth lyrical music)	17:24
	I jump, I bite.	17:44
	I jump, I bite.	17:46
	How it amuses me, Lord.	17:49
	How ingenious to have made me so small	17:53
	with this spring board leap.	18:00
	I jump, I bite.	18:04
	I jump, I bite.	18:06
	A royal game.	18:09
	I own; I put a spice of malice in it	18:11
	and I have more power to upset the word than the elephant.	18:18
	When I think of that, I could die laughing.	18:27
	I jump, I bite.	18:34
	I jump, I bite.	18:36
	Lord, will you let me into your paradise	18:39
	and not be afraid that I shall turn it upside down?	18:47
	I dare not say amen.	18:55
	(smooth lyrical music)	19:03
	(smooth lyrical music)	19:30
	A royal train, Lord,	20:03
	more scintillating than jewelled enamel.	20:08
	Look, now I spread it in a wheel.	20:14
	I must say I derive some satisfaction from my good looks.	20:20
	My feathers are sown with eyes, admiring themselves.	20:30
	True, my discordant cry shames me a little	20:38
	and it is humiliating to make me remember my meager heart.	20:44
	Your world is badly made, if I may say so.	20:54
	The nightingale's voice in me would be properly attired	21:00
	and soothe my soul.	21:08
	Lord, let a day come,	21:11
	a heavenly day,	21:16
	when my inner and outer selves will be reconciled	21:18
	in perfect harmony.	21:25
	Amen.	21:30
	(smooth lyrical music)	21:35
	(smooth lyrical music)	22:06
	(smooth piano music)	22:19
	I believe, Lord.	22:59
	I believe it is faith that saves us.	23:04
	You have said it.	23:10
	I believe the world was made for me,	23:13
	because as it dies,	23:18
	I thrive on it.	23:23
	My undertaker's black	23:28
	is in keeping with my cynical old heart.	23:32
	Raven land is between you	23:38
	and that life down there	23:43
	for whose end I wait to gratify myself.	23:46
	Aha, I cry.	23:54
	(speaking in foreign language)	23:57
	What a feast?	24:00
	I shall never go back to the ark,	24:03
	to the ark.	24:10
	Oh, let it die in me,	24:13
	this horrible nostalgia.	24:18
	Amen.	24:24
	(smooth piano music)	24:31
	(smooth lyrical music)	25:02
	The ark waits, Lord.	25:16
	The ark waits on your will	25:22
	and the sign of your peace.	25:27
	I am the dove,	25:33
	simple as the sweetness that comes from you.	25:37
	The arc waits, Lord.	25:44
	It has endured.	25:49
	Let me carry it a sprig of hope and joy	25:55
	and put at the heart of its forsakenness	26:02
	this in which your love clothes me,	26:08
	grace immaculate	26:15
	Amen.	26:21
	(gentle music)	26:30
	(gentle music)	27:01
	(audience clapping)	27:17
	(audience clapping)	27:44
	(smooth piano music)	28:09
	(smooth piano music)	28:36
	(smooth piano music)	29:02
	(smooth piano music)	29:32
	(smooth piano music)	30:03
	(smooth piano music fading)	30:26
	(smooth piano music)	30:48
	(smooth piano music)	31:20
	(smooth piano music)	31:50
	(smooth piano music)	32:12
	(smooth piano music)	32:43
	(smooth piano music fading)	33:12
	(audience clapping)	33:19
	(smooth piano music)	33:50
	(smooth piano music)	34:20
	(smooth piano music)	34:50
	(smooth piano music)	35:20
	(smooth piano music)	35:50
	(smooth piano music)	36:20
	(smooth piano music)	36:50
	(smooth piano music)	37:20
	(smooth piano music)	37:50
	(smooth piano music fading)	38:12
	(audience clapping)	38:27
	The moon, they say, called Mantis,	39:51
	sent him with life to people, saying,	39:59
	"Go to men and tell them this.	40:06
	'As I die; and dying, live,	40:13
	you shall die; and dying, live.'"	40:20
	Mantis started,	40:28
	took the word,	40:32
	then Hare stopped him by the path.	40:35
	He said, "What, insect, is your errand?"	40:38
	Mantis answered,	40:44
	"I am sent by Moon,	40:47
	by that one.	40:52
	I must say to men,	40:54
	as he dies; and dying, lives,	41:00
	they too shall die; and dying, live."	41:07
	Hare, the quick tongue, said to him, "Why run?	41:14
	You are shaky on your legs.	41:19
	Let me go.	41:23
	I outrun the wind."	41:26
	Hare ran.	41:30
	He came men and to said, "Moon sent me with this word.	41:32
	'As I die; and dying, perish,	41:39
	you shall die and utterly die.'"	41:44
	Hare ran again to Moon,	41:51
	told him all that he had said to men.	41:54
	The moon said, dark with anger,	41:58
	"How is it you dared tell them this thing I never said?"	42:03
	He took up wood, a sharp fire log,	42:13
	with one blow in the face,	42:18
	struck down the hare.	42:21
	He split the lying hare's lip to this day.	42:26
	(audience clapping)	43:09
	(bright piano music)	43:43
	(bright piano music)	44:10
	(bright piano music)	44:39
	(audience clapping)	44:55
	(smooth flute music)	45:54
	(smooth music)	46:40
	(smooth lyrical music)	47:10
	(smooth lyrical music)	47:39
	Watching a million bird in groups,	47:53
	veering in elliptical, variant ribbons	47:59
	become incarnate joy,	48:07
	a lighting on a great Magnolia tree	48:13
	transmuting leaves into birds.	48:22
	Watching this whirling dance	48:32
	controlled by the cosmic soul of birds,	48:36
	I become tranquil.	48:44
	(smooth lyrical music)	48:53
	(smooth lyrical music)	49:23
	(smooth lyrical music)	49:50
	(audience clapping)	50:05
	(audience clapping)	50:32

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Eurythemes Workshop - "Prayers from the Ark" (November 16, 1975)

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We constantly seek meaning in our relationships and we search for it, but we must really look to God and in doing so, seek out truth, goodness, and meaning. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "The search for God can also be a search for truth and the search for God can also be a search for goodness. The search continues because God's search for us continues."

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