“Rejoice in the Lord
always and again I say rejoice” is a four part round I sang for years at church
camp. It's one of those rounds you just keep singing because it has no
obvious ending and though not nearly as obnoxious as “It’s
a Small World After All” it can get stuck in your head. Maybe that’s the point
of these four verses – not the obnoxious part – but a way of living that gets
stuck in your head and has no ending unless you choose to stop. Of course
sometimes stopping is a choice made for us as anxiety mounts and prayers spoken
into the silence of God defy our ability to understand. But then that is why we
have to sing “Rejoice in the Lord always” as a round. Four parts compelling
each other to keep singing and you cannot tell who is leading or who is
following and every measure has a Rejoice. It is through the prayer of our life together that the peace of God transcends anxious times to guard hearts
and minds and keep the song from stopping. So rejoice in the Lord always and
again I say Rejoice!
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