I came home theres no job story of my life song

вЂњIвЂ™m boringly consistent,вЂќ she says, with a streak of self-deprecation, sitting on the sun-dappled deck of her modest Cape Cod home, lined with three birdfeeders and a birdbath. She has worked for economic justice, environmental protection, and the rights of women migrant workers, prisoners, refugees, and lesbians. But she also means a chain of linked, politically progressive causes: She has actively opposed wars, South African apartheid, U.S. By that she certainly means the feminist movement that dramatically changed what was possible for women since she was a girl. McDade, now 72, has given her life to what she calls the movement.

вЂњActivist, yes, but not a musician,вЂќ she says. Her most recent, My Heart Is Moved, due out this fall, is a collaboration by ten womenвЂ™s choruses she works with across North America and is based on the United Nations Earth Charter. Neither does she identify herself as a songwriter or musician-though she has written hundreds of songs and released fifteen CDs. I call myself a woman of faith seeking with others to touch what matters.вЂќ My community is a loose community of women. But when someone asks where am I being spiritually formed and where am I participating in spiritual formation with others, itвЂ™s not ever been connected with churches. вЂњI never huffed,вЂќ she laughs, blowing out a puff of air, вЂњand left. Here is her story.Д¬arolyn McDade does not call herself a Unitarian Universalist. And the tellings of the story behind вЂњSpirit of LifeвЂќ have not always agreed on the facts. We think of her as ours and often identify her as a UU songwriter, but for the past two decades she has had little formal contact with the denomination. Little has been written about Carolyn McDade. Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.ДЄs close as this piece of music is to the hearts of so many UUs, its songwriter is something of an enigma. Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.

It finds the common ground held by humanists and theists, pagans and Christians, Buddhists and Jews, gay and straight among us. In six short lines вЂњSpirit of LifeвЂќ touches so much that is central to our faith-compassion, justice, community, freedom, reverence for nature, and the mystery of life. It is sung at weddings and memorial services, around campfires and at demonstrations, at cradles and hospital bedsides. A new adult religious education curriculum being field-tested this fall is based on the song. Sermons have been devoted to this one song. It is our Doxology, or perhaps our вЂњAmazing Grace.вЂќ Many congregations sing it every Sunday, or at least enough to know the words by heart. No other song, no other prayer, no other piece of liturgy is so well known and loved in Unitarian Universalism as вЂњSpirit of LifeвЂќ by Carolyn McDade.

I came home theres no job story of my life song