“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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