I find this to be very sweet and beautiful. I like how Ana H. facilitated it. After she taught the song, she left the front and just let this group create the chant themselves. How trusting and ego-less.
The thing that moves me most is the usher that stops to listen, goes out, comes back and walks almost into the circle. I never would have noticed, but he came up to me afterward and thanked me for teaching him the song. When I finally saw him on the video years later, I was amazed at the way spirit works. Again. As usual. Always surprising.
Ana, I have watched this video a few times over the last years when I am considering using this song with my congregation, to refresh the parts and the melody in my mind. I was first introduced to it by a colleague, the Rev. Kristin Krantz. For the first time today - I watched the video all the way through and as the camera pans around I realized that you are singing in St. Paul's chapel. I got goosebumps as it dawned on me- because I helped open up the chapel, dig up the front walk, and get a generator going on Sept 12, 2001 with a few folks gathered from the seaman's center. I spent most of that first week serving with coffee and sandwiches at St. Paul's - I really never went back to the chapel after it became a tourist attraction. Thank you for blessing that space with "Open My Heart". Even after all these years, it helps.
@@adriendawson406 I lived on the west coast when 911 happened, though I grew up in NY. In the years afterward, I never went down by "ground zero" when visiting NY. I had some history there and it was something I didn't want to confront. I went to a Music that Makes Community workshop at St. Paul's chapel in 2012, soon after moving back to NY. It was during an improvisation on Psalm 23 that I finally could approach the space and make the beginnings of peace.
I find this to be very sweet and beautiful. I like how Ana H. facilitated it. After she taught the song, she left the front and just let this group create the chant themselves. How trusting and ego-less.
The thing that moves me most is the usher that stops to listen, goes out, comes back and walks almost into the circle. I never would have noticed, but he came up to me afterward and thanked me for teaching him the song. When I finally saw him on the video years later, I was amazed at the way spirit works. Again. As usual. Always surprising.
Ana, I have watched this video a few times over the last years when I am considering using this song with my congregation, to refresh the parts and the melody in my mind. I was first introduced to it by a colleague, the Rev. Kristin Krantz. For the first time today - I watched the video all the way through and as the camera pans around I realized that you are singing in St. Paul's chapel. I got goosebumps as it dawned on me- because I helped open up the chapel, dig up the front walk, and get a generator going on Sept 12, 2001 with a few folks gathered from the seaman's center. I spent most of that first week serving with coffee and sandwiches at St. Paul's - I really never went back to the chapel after it became a tourist attraction. Thank you for blessing that space with "Open My Heart". Even after all these years, it helps.
@@adriendawson406 I lived on the west coast when 911 happened, though I grew up in NY. In the years afterward, I never went down by "ground zero" when visiting NY. I had some history there and it was something I didn't want to confront. I went to a Music that Makes Community workshop at St. Paul's chapel in 2012, soon after moving back to NY. It was during an improvisation on Psalm 23 that I finally could approach the space and make the beginnings of peace.