Let Beauty Now Be What We Do

Here is a soulful song that also goes perfectly with my blog yesterday: 

Let Beauty Now Be






This song, by the Illumination Band, has deeply companioned me this month.  The sound is blues-y, folkish, bluegrass-y music that uses Rumi poetry in the lyrics.  What an awesome blend of heart, wisdom, poetry, and sound!













Let Beauty Now Be

Some mornings we wake up on empty,
to a day that's got nothing but need.
So we reach for a strong cup of coffee,
or maybe a good book to read.

The words of the gospels upholdin
but they come from so high and so far.
But, sometimes in trouble the best thing to do
is pick up the good old guitar.

Let the beauty we love come and fill us.
Let the beauty around get us through.
Let the beauty inside be our compass
Let beauty now be what we do.
                               
Cause all hearts still long for the beauty.
It's a secret that's here every where.
And the soft, sweet old tune
can remind us it shines
In the midst of the deepest despair.

There are hundreds of ways joy can find us.
Like the hundreds of ways children play.
And there's hundreds of ways
to kneel down on the ground,
hundreds of ways we can pray.

Let the beauty we love come and fill us.
Let the beauty around get us through.
Let the beauty inside be our compass
Let beauty now be what we do.



Find the song on mp3 downloads on Amazon and CD Baby.   ENJOY!!!  

Love the description CD Baby says this about the band:The Illumination Band creates a unique musical experience by drawing on the words of the great13th c. Sufi poet Rumi. With soaring vocal harmonies, lilting old-time melodies and hard-driving blues giving way to moments of mystical longing, the Illumination Band blurs the lines between musical genres as seamlessly as it crosses cultural boundaries. Grounded in American bluegrass, gospel and country, an Illumination Band concert covers a lot of emotional territory but always returns to the heart’s yearning for transcendence.

Illumination Band is now on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Illumination-Band/190803891021832

Joyfully,
Sharon