inspired by "We Need One Another" by George Odell (#468 in Singing the Living Tradition)
Spirit of Life,
We need each other.
We need one another to sit together in the dark when the electricity is out and the wind is howling.
We need one another to wade through the water
with nothing but an old canoe and the will to save as many lives as possible.
We need one another to help tear down our moldy, rotten walls
and begin to put up new ones in the house that our grandfather built.
We need one another when the sky clears
and yet we are still so filled with stories that if we don’t tell them to someone else,
we might hurt ourselves.
We need one another to make us laugh on the first good day in a long while.
And we need one another so that when our own little spring of hope dries up,
there is a community well from which we can drink
that will keep us going until the thirst is over, the worst is past,
and able to survive even when the rains come again.