Throughout this Mashal, we are thinking about how we can turn what we see into prayer. A while ago, I took a walk around the streets where I live, and took the opportunity to see – with my spirit as well as my eyes – the people I passed. My walk became slower and slower as I felt the Lord’s burden come upon me for these people, and He began to talk to me about these ones whose names I didn’t know, but He did; whose circumstances I could not tell, but He could.

As soon as I got home, I wrote down what I had been sensing, and later set the words to a piece of music I had written three years earlier, called Lament and Light with great help and insight from Peter Richards. This too was inspired by the Lord as I sang to Him one day in the bath!

I incorporated into this piece the poignant and beautiful melody of a Swedish lovsång (praise song) that somehow radiates the light of the Lord and His great love toward every person. The note of lament in other parts of the music reflects His grief and compassion towards those whose hearts are hard toward Him and each other.

May this reflection bless you, and inspire you to pray as you move around your own streets and neighbourhoods.

The piece concludes with Linda Entwistle singing a hauntingly beautiful theme in the Spirit, which leaves a profound aftertaste. Rebecca Whettam and Natalie Halliday played the cello parts in different locations, with Peter Richards on piano and Mike Halliday on clarinet also elsewhere, as we recorded this during the lockdown.

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