Today’s prelude and call to worship softly calls to those present.

Quietly: It is well with my soul

It is well with my soul – begins softly and peace settles around me, I am carried on the melody and harmonies to a quite place.

The mind drifts to many pleasant experiences, then is piqued by more tragic events, crushed by the storms around me.

Anger? Guilt? Misgivings? Perhaps but the refrain touches my conscious mind and draws me to the reality: It is well with my soul.

Crescendo, power driving into the room, into my heart.

Soaring wonder! Wildly scrambling! What wonder is this? Where will I go? Where have I been? Where am I now?

Again a thundering declaration – it is well with my soul.

Descent into peace, into glorious calm. Comfort fills the room around me, the notes bring solace closing in to the quietness we will all experience. Moving toward closure, a final ending? Perhaps but then

The piano whispers: it is well with my soul and so we are ready to go forward in loving peace to face whatever the coming days, months and years shall bring us, moving with the strength that comes only from the source of everything.

Even so, it is well with my soul.