September 5 is St. Mother Teresa’s feast day.  I became interested in her story several years ago and when I read books and articles about her life, I decided to write a musical piece about her. She was a dedicated and powerful force in our world at that time.  She worked tirelessly for the poor and homeless and downtrodden.  And she organized her order of nuns and trained them in the same vocation that she was living.  The musical piece features a soloist and choir and instrumental accompaniment.  The choir serves to elicit the response of the soloist who is singing poignant words and phrases that she used during her life.  May her words have a ripple effect in your own life.

Many Ripples

By Bill Svarda

REF:
I alone cannot change the world,
but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples,
to create many ripples,
to create many ripples.

1. Mother speak to us, the wisdom of your years:     Be a little pencil in God’s hand.
Serve God and love until it hurts.
Mother speak to us, the wisdom of your years:   Go and help the poorest of the poor. Be a willing instrument of God.

2. Mother speak to us, the wisdom of your years:      God speaks in the silence of the heart.
In despair and pain, love is the cure.
Mother speak to us, the wisdom of your years:    Nothing big, do small things with great love. Light the light of love in every heart.

3. Mother speak to us, the wisdom of your years:      I will do much more for you from heaven.
The singer may be gone, the song continues. Mother speak to us, the wisdom of your years:    Just a simple woman of the church,walking in the footsteps of her Jesus.

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