What a hymn for our aspirational faith.  We sang “We Would Be One” for our worship service on July 5th.  Unitarian minister Samuel Anthony Wright, wrote the lyrics for Unitarian and Universalist youth at their Continental Convention of 1953-54.  Jacqui James shares in the book Between the Lines, “At this conference they merged to form the Liberal Religious Youth of the United States and Canada, setting a model for the Unitarian Universalist denominational consolidation in 1961.” 

The Reverend Kimberley Debus wrote in her blog that this is hymn is “A call to work, to learn, to listen, to pray, to sing.” and yes, I’m going to remind us that it’s a call “To Love” And in a world that makes it so easy to judge and to call out but not call in – may this song be a reminder to speak to ourselves and our world in love as we go about solving the problems of our world.

We would be one as now we join in singing
our hymn of love, to pledge ourselves anew
to that high cause of greater understanding
of who we are, and what in us is true.
We would be one in living for each other
to show to all a new community.

We would be one in building for tomorrow
a nobler world than we have known today.
We would be one in searching for that meaning
which bends our hearts and points us on our way.
As one, we pledge ourselves to greater service,
with love and justice, strive to make us free.

From your director of music,

Ebee Bromley