This Sunday marks the end of a long Thanksgiving Weekend.  Sometimes it’s hard to be thankful.  Sometimes thankfulness just washes over you.  We’ve felt both recently.  The choir will perform a traditional southern gospel song titled “Down in the River to Pray”.  The origin of this song is unknown, but tradition suggests it was sung first by African-American slaves.  It is also known as “Down to the River to Pray”, but maybe these folks were Baptists.  And you know, Baptists immerse!

Some of the words are:

As I went down in the river to pray,
Studyin’ about that good ol’ way
And who shall wear the robe and crown;
Good Lord, show me the way.
Oh, sinners, let’s go down, let’s go down, come on down.
Oh, sinners, let’s go down, down in the river to pray.