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The earth is full / Lord as you will

from Abide in My Love: Live at Mt. Vernon by Darlene Franz

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"The earth is full" is inspired by a meditation on Psalm 33:5:
"The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD." (KJV)

Several years ago, a friend asked me to write a chant to accompany John Philip Newell's chapter "The Fecundity of God" in "The Book of Creation: An Introduction to Celtic Spirituality."

At the end of the chapter, Newell gives a beautiful exercise, breathing in and out to repetitions of this phrase while contemplating the goodness of the earth outside of us --
"...the One who dwells at the heart of all life" --
and the goodness within -- "as you feel your body expanding, be aware of the goodness that you are opening up to from the depths of your being. It is planted within you, and can be sensed like the fragrance of the earth's goodness."

May this chant assist you to dwell in the goodness of your own earth, this planetary earth we share, and the "world without end." Amen.

And "Lord as you will" comes from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers:
Abba Macarius was asked, “How should one pray?”
The old man said, “There is no need at all to make long discourses;
it is enough to stretch out one’s hands and say,
‘Lord, as you will, and as you know, have mercy.’
And if the conflict grows fiercer say, ‘Lord, help!’
He knows very well what we need and he shows us his mercy.”

As we chanted while gazing across the fertile green valley near the retreat center, these two texts became an intertwining meditation of surrender to the mystery of incarnational reality.

lyrics

Lyrics: The earth is full, full of your goodness,
the earth is full, full of You,
Your goodness fills the whole earth

Lord as you will, Lord as you know, have mercy, have mercy

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from Abide in My Love: Live at Mt. Vernon, released April 3, 2017
composed by Darlene Franz
lyrics from Psalm 33, and Abba Macarius, Sayings of the Desert Fathers
performed by Darlene Franz, voice and harmonium
Carl Germain, bass
and participant vocalists of the
Northwest Wisdom School, May 15 – 20, 2016
Treacy Levine Center, Mt. Vernon, Washington
Christian Heilman, recording engineer, mixerguy.com
produced by Darlene Franz and Christian Heilman
image by Diane Walker, woodenhue.blogspot.com

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Darlene Franz Seattle, Washington

Since 2006, Darlene Franz has been composing chants and facilitating mindful singing workshops throughout the US and Canada. Her work with groups cultivates the expansion of embodied attention and presence. Through active and meditative practices based in sacred mantric interspiritual chant, singers and “non-singers” can discover grounded, centered, whole awareness while singing. ... more

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