Day Fifteen.
Sacremént. Isaiah 61:1–3.
We welcome back Claire Hitchins as one of today’s featured contributors. She is a learner in life whose journey of radical Christian discipleship has led her all over the place. In December, 2015, her original music was featured on the blog of On Being with Krista Tippett, initiating a leap of faith into new musical pursuits. She recorded her debut album, These Bodies, which she self-released in October, 2016. When she’s not on the road offering her music as medicine, she can be found at home at Charis Community in Charlottesville, Virginia, co-cultivating generative, resilient and healing lifeways in resistance to empire. Claire received her BA in Religious Studies from The University of Virginia in 2013, and served with Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest in 2015-’16.
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to the prisoners;
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour,
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
to provide for those who mourn in Zion —
to give them a garland instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.
— Isaiah 61:1–3
Isaiah 58 “Rise and Shine” lyrics:
We say we seek the Lord each day and that we want to know The Way
But we fast to boast and to fight and so we shutter out the light.
It’s time to
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give all the glory to the Lord
All the glory to the Lord
This is the fast that will please: set every last oppressed one free
And those who thirst and go hungry at your own table you must feed
That’s how you
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give all the glory to the Lord
All the glory to the Lord
All those that shiver in the cold, if they are naked give them clothes
And those that want for house and home must find a welcome in your own
That’s how you
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give all the glory to the Lord
All the glory to the Lord
Remove the yoke from among us
The pointing of our fingers
And speaking any evil must cease
And then we’ll see how we’ll
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give all the glory to the Lord
All the glory to the Lord
Rebuild the broken foundation
Restore the forsaken generation
Let love our one meditation be
And then we’ll see
Our light break forth like the dawn, our darkness
become just like noonday sun; God will be our rear guard,
plant us like a garden beside the living stream
whose waters never cease to
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give God the glory glory
Rise and shine and give all the glory to the Lord
All the glory to the Lord
