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What We Must Learn

from Songs of Wind and Water by John Coleman

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The desert calls us like a lover
Like a teacher – commanding us to grow
So we’ll walk the barren land and dry river bed
Don’t know quite how were fed
But something in us grows

What we must learn – and it is the work of a lifetime -
Is to carry with us - back to the marketplace
The faith and strength that we find in the desert
We must carry back – the coals from our campfire
Not only in order that we survive
But so that others may warm themselves at our hearth
At our hearth

This desert fire is such a scorching wind
Burning up everything - Taking everything that’s dry
And from the blackening the greening comes
Shooting up to the sun - so miraculous and new

What we must learn ...

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from Songs of Wind and Water, released July 10, 2012

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John Coleman Hobart, Australia

John Coleman is an Australian singer/songwriter in the acoustic folk/rock tradition who has produced eleven albums of original songs The most recent is Falling Into Light - a collection of songs for meditation - his final collaboration with Noel Davis. Many of John’s songs are inspired by and explore the spirituality of the L’Arche and Quaker communities to which he belongs. ... more

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