Lectionary Year B
August 13, 2000
John 6:35, 41-51

Step VI: Hermeneutical Bridge

(DH) C. HERMENEUTICAL BRIDGE

The country singer Emmylou Harris has a song on her latest album, "Wrecking Ball," that captures, I believe, the mixture of longing for something beyond our understanding, of loneliness, vulnerability and trust that we find in John 6:41-51. The words of her song "Orphan Girl" go like this:

I am an orphan on God's highway
But I share my troubles if you go my way.

I have no mother, no father,
no sister, no brother.
I am an orphan girl.

I have had friendships, pure and golden,
but ties of kinship, I have not known them.

I have no mother, no father,
no sister, no brother.
I am an orphan girl.

But when He calls me, I will be able
to meet my family at God's table.

I'll meet my mother, my father,
my sister, my brother.
No more an orphan girl.

So blessed Savior, make me willing,
walk beside me, 'til I am with them.

Be my mother, my father,
my sister, my brother.
I am an orphan girl.



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