Being a Woman of Faith / Chasing after God
Talk by Lindy Taylor - Saturday 7'th June
Abraham was a man known for chasing after God. I like to think of myself as a Christian woman chasing after God also. But what does that mean today? We as a nation have just been celebrating D day. Where we celebrated the freedom we live in today because of the sacrifice given by the few 70 years ago. Where the liberation of France began. Last month we said “good bye” to the lovely Roy Bisson from our family. He had been a beloved member of our church for many years. The time at his funeral was a celebration of his Christian life and as a family we could reflect on the impact his life had made on so many lives in particular his love for the youth. Also as the family of the church we have celebrated as Christians and all that means, the wedding of Vikki and Matthew Gordon who both grew up within the church family of St Andrew’s. They came to our junior church, then the youth group, were a part of New wine and were on team at Rock Solid at Shepton Mallet and New Wine Jersey. We are very blessed that their lives have brought them back and we had the most beautiful day two weeks ago to the day to share their wedding day and pray for them and with them for God’s blessings on their union and marriage.
And again the baptism of Alais, where we welcomed with Benjamine, Jeffrey and Amaury the beautiful Alais into our family and promised with them that we would help to nurture and grow Alais in her spiritual life.
What does that mean for us as Christian women? How are we meant to nurture and help to grow this wonderful couple facing a new life together and help and support Benjamine and Jeffrey with their beautiful two children.
If you are anything like me you immediately think “ Who am I Lord” However if I have learned anything in the last few years it’s not about Who am I but whose am I? What is my purpose in life?
Some of you know my personal testimony but it has taken me 14 years to answer those questions. I now know that I want women to know who they are and more importantly whose they are, because it took me a long time to know that I am His. That little simple word HIS, I am not my own. I am His. That I belong to the God that created me and that has absolutely changed everything in my life.
Through his word I have learned who I am. Psalm 139 to this day is still my favourite psalm. To this day what God taught me in those verses, changed me, gave me peace and freedom and changed my reality. When you read something over and over again you see something new for God promises that your mind will be renewed by His word.
I live now in a life free from low self esteem totally renewed and in Psalm 139 I call these my core truths as they changed everything for me. He showed me that “He knows me,” “protects me” and that “He made me” and “He values those” that He made and that is all I needed to know at that time. This was not an overnight revelation but a slow replacement of all the negative statements or beliefs I had taken in during my early years, with God’s truths. This is something that I have done for Sammy to! Those of you who don’t know who Sammy is, she is my awesomely talented artistic daughter. Since she was 13 I have encouraged a twice daily beauty regimen. To read her verse on Psalm 139 v14 twice a day. That she is fearfully and wonderfully made and know that full well. I would encourage any mother, grandmother, aunt, god mother to do the same for their own. Most teenagers in this secular world are so discouraged by everything thrown at them from school, college and the media they can do with all the building up and encouragement they can have, and that is what we can offer as the family of the church at St Andrew’s. We have promised to nurture young Amaury and Alais, we have promised to come along side the young Mr And Mrs Gordon, let us do that by being women searching after the heart of God. We need to seek God’s presence in prayer and reading the Bible. We need to know we are fine.
When people ask how are we and we reply FINE! Are we? Are you?
Do we really mean that or are we hiding how we really feel? I know I used to say that I was FINE when I was feeling a little Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic and emotional! That was my acronym for fine! Underneath our exteriors, I know because I have been there, there is a real woman who needs a real God! In Him there can be a different kind of fine. He really can give us such a peace that passes all understanding because we know we are in His hands. We belong to the most high God and therefore we are going to be fine!
I’m on a journey with my maker and this is a long term plan. I’m learning to be transformed slowly through God’s Spirit as I read God’s truths through his word. I am His and He is mine. I would encourage all of you to read God’s word daily, to wash your minds with God’s word and put His truths into your spirit so that you are renewed from the inside.
There is so much within us to be healed and it doesn’t happen overnight. We live in a world which is all about quick fixes, but that is not God’s journey for us. He wants to see us free to be the women he chose us to be and that requires a refining process where he frees us from our pain, rejection, shame and fear through repentance and acceptance.
Rick Warren said “ Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth. Spiritual maturity is neither instant nor automatic; it is a gradual, progressive development that will take the rest of your life. God is far more interested in who you are than in what you do. We are human beings, not human doings.
It’s a lifestyle to be learned, a life style based on living, breathing and moving in step with God’s spirit within us.
God wants us to be real with him, so perhaps we need to be more real with each other too. Even Jesus’ disciples asked him to pray! Jesus responds to us today as he did to his disciples – with an invitation to come and learn prayer from him, the One whose “yoke is easy”, and he reassures us with these words:
Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep Company with me and you’ll learn how to live freely and lightly. (Matthew 11:28 – 30 MSG)
The next part of this talk is based on a Liz Babbs book called “Into God’s Presence” and having chatted to monks, nuns, and bishops on the subject she believes our prayer life is a journey, with its inevitable ups and downs and that there is no such thing as an expert. The reassuring fact is that nobody has arrived – it’s an ongoing journey heavenward. All relationships fluctuate and take time to build and maintain, but I’m sure that God loves it even if we can only spend a minute with Him. Wouldn’t you want to spend a minute with your closest friend?
So what is meditation?
Spirituality is a popular word these days. In fact, an awareness of all things spiritual has multiplied in the past decade and created something of a spiritual supermarket. Even the word spiritual has been taken over by our consumerist culture and is seen as simply another way to get more out of life.
Not surprisingly, meditation techniques are becoming increasingly popular. In this age of self-help and self-enlightenment, many see it simply as a means to de-stress and achieve a sense of peace and well-being.
For the Christian, however, spirituality is not about getting more; it is, rather, essentially about relationship – a relationship focused on God, which embraces every aspect of one’s being. Centred on the teachings of Jesus, this relationship involves Bible study, prayer and contemplation.
When some people hear the word meditation, an automatic word association takes place; for them, meditation, equals transcendental meditation (TM).
This is understandable because back in the 1960’s, the Beatles popularised this form of meditation, and so all meditation became synonymous with TM. Many people don’t even realise that TM has a religious origin – in Hinduism.
Unfortunately, many Christians seem to be unaware of their own rich tradition in meditation – a tradition that originates in the Bible! The church has done little to encourage us to explore our roots in Christian meditation, a fact that has not only contributed to our current spiritual poverty but has meant that we are not being heard as Christians in today’s spiritual marketplace. It’s not surprising then that many describe meditation and contemplative prayer as “the best kept secret in the church”.
In his book Meditation – Why and How by Rev. Leonard C. Wilson, he describes meditation as follows;
Meditation is a mental and spiritual activity between an individual, or group, and God. The creation of a quiet space where one can be alone with God. The inner stillness in which God can speak, and an openness to God through which he can pour the gifts of his Spirit.
Meditation directs the mind away from self, and concentrates it upon God. It stops us thinking of ourselves, our difficulties, our needs and lets the mind soar beyond all this to God. In the silence of meditation we are learning how to open our hearts to the healing power of God’s love; then, because of the close link between our physical and mental states, the body responds in a variety of ways; it may be an increase in vitality, greater resistance to infection, the easing of tensions, pain or other physical disorders.
So what is Christian Meditation?
Christian meditation is a deep form of prayer that can lead to direct communion with God. It is not focused on experiences or requests, but on surrender. We are learning the simplicity of being with God.
When we emphasise experience we are in danger of developing a consumerist pick-‘n’-mix spirituality, where God’s presents to us matter more than his presence. Christian meditation is centred on listening to God and obeying his Word. There is no vague, unintelligible mantra spoken. We are simply following the instruction in the Bible to meditate on God’s Word: “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful” (Joshua 1:8).
Christian meditation differs from other forms of meditation because it does not require us to empty our minds and hearts, nor does it encourage a preoccupation with self. To quote Joyce Huggett in her book Learning the Language of Prayer:
Christian meditation must not be confused with yoga, Eastern meditation or transcendental meditation. For unlike these disciplines, Christian meditation engages every part of us – our mind, our emotions, our imagination, our creativity and, supremely, our will.
So how should we prepare ourselves?
I have found the mobile phone to be a good analogy and has helped me to have a much fuller understanding of the importance of prayer and meditation in my life and to communicate this with others. Like mobile communication, our relationship with God is dynamic; it’s every day, every hour, every minute, and it can be every bit as “cool” and exciting.
1) Switching On
First, before you can use the mobile phone, you have to switch it on. In the same way we have to take time to switch on to God, to show our willingness to spend time with him. Just expressing to him your openness is a start, as in this simple prayer:
Lord, help me to focus on you,
As we spend time together today.
Renew my mind and help me to let go
Of all the clutter that gets in the way.
2) Registering
Next, my mobile phone has to take a few seconds to register its connection to the phone system, which is a reminder to me to acknowledge my own connectedness to God. You need to admit your dependence on that connection:
Lord, you are my Father and Saviour,
Creator and Lord
Apart from you
I can do
Nothing.
3) Searching
Then my mobile phone screen tells me that it is searching for the particular person I am trying to call. It is trying to find his or her signal. This is like tuning into God’s presence, taking time just to be quiet and hear that “still small voice” of God. But if I hear nothing, I have not failed, because even wasting time with the one we love is valuable. In fact, it’s at the heart of prayer. As lovers grow in intimacy, words become unnecessary. We don’t spend time with God for what we get from him. Wasting time with God is always an investment. One day we will have nothing but time to spend with God – so our quiet time and Sabbath rests now are simply preparation for heaven.
4) Signal Strength Low
Tiredness, stress, anxiety, illness, relationship difficulties, interruptions, children screaming in another room will interfere with our ability to focus on God. Somehow, we have to learn either how to ignore the internal and external noises or how to incorporate them in such a way that they no longer become a distraction.
5) Battery Low
What a wonderful reminder battery low is. My mobile phone will only function foe twenty four hours before it displays this warning. At that point I have to recharge its batteries by plugging it into an electricity source.
In the same way we have to keep coming back to base, returning to our Source, which is God. This is exactly what Jesus did when he took time out to be with his Father: “After leaving them, he (Jesus) went up on a mountain to pray” (Mark 6:46).
The pattern of ministering and withdrawal, giving out and then receiving, is biblical. It is modelled by Jesus, and Jesus encouraged his disciples to adopt the same pattern. “Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest” “ (Mark 6:31).
We too can be recharged, re-energised and refocused by returning to base and taking time out with our Father.
6) Charging complete...
What a lovely thought! When our charging is complete, we are ready to face anything!
Are you ready to spend some time with God?
The first things you need to focus on are...
Becoming Still
In Psalm 46:10 God tells us to “Be still and know that I am God”
It certainly is a struggle to switch off from the busyness of life, and plug in to God. I usually find that music helps me to relax, or focusing on my breathing. Distractions, to do lists, anxiety and mind-chatter are the norm when meditating, so don’t think you’ve failed before you’ve started! Have a note pad at hand to jot important things down to help your concentration.
If you are still struggling to switch off, you could imagine that you have a special volume dial on the side of your head and visualise yourself turning down the noise and mind-chatter as you rotate the dial. I know this sounds strange, but I find this is a helpful technique.
Breathing
It has been said that that art of relaxation is concentration. As we concentrate on our breathing, it helps us to take our minds off other preoccupations and focus them on God who breathes life into all creation.
Try this simple breathing exercise to get you started:
· Inhale 1,2 ...
· Hold 1,2
· Exhale 1,2,3,4...
· Repeat several times
· Inhale 1,2, 3...
· Hold 1,2,3
· Exhale 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
· Repeat several times
Now try breathing “in the name of Jesus” as we breathe.
1)The Jesus Prayer
The Jesus prayer is an ancient prayer that comes in many forms, the most famous of which is “Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me, a sinner”. But an even simpler form is to repeat the name Jesus.
Spend a short time focusing on the rhythm of your breathing, and then repeat the name Jesus silently to yourself allowing the Holy Spirit to breathe new life into you. You could inhale “Je” and exhale “sus”, or say Jesus during or after exhalation...........
As we focus on Jesus in this way, we are reminded that He is our hope, our peace, our joy, our rock and our salvation. It is the name of Jesus that is at the heart of our prayers.... our lives.... our work..... our ministry..... our leisure.... our laughter... and our sorrow. Our whole being is dependent on Jesus.
2) Be Still... Breathe in for 2
And Know... Hold for 2
That I am God.... Breathe out for 4.
3) Going Deeper into God (Five minutes)
Song; Arise my darling.
And again the baptism of Alais, where we welcomed with Benjamine, Jeffrey and Amaury the beautiful Alais into our family and promised with them that we would help to nurture and grow Alais in her spiritual life.
What does that mean for us as Christian women? How are we meant to nurture and help to grow this wonderful couple facing a new life together and help and support Benjamine and Jeffrey with their beautiful two children.
If you are anything like me you immediately think “ Who am I Lord” However if I have learned anything in the last few years it’s not about Who am I but whose am I? What is my purpose in life?
Some of you know my personal testimony but it has taken me 14 years to answer those questions. I now know that I want women to know who they are and more importantly whose they are, because it took me a long time to know that I am His. That little simple word HIS, I am not my own. I am His. That I belong to the God that created me and that has absolutely changed everything in my life.
Through his word I have learned who I am. Psalm 139 to this day is still my favourite psalm. To this day what God taught me in those verses, changed me, gave me peace and freedom and changed my reality. When you read something over and over again you see something new for God promises that your mind will be renewed by His word.
I live now in a life free from low self esteem totally renewed and in Psalm 139 I call these my core truths as they changed everything for me. He showed me that “He knows me,” “protects me” and that “He made me” and “He values those” that He made and that is all I needed to know at that time. This was not an overnight revelation but a slow replacement of all the negative statements or beliefs I had taken in during my early years, with God’s truths. This is something that I have done for Sammy to! Those of you who don’t know who Sammy is, she is my awesomely talented artistic daughter. Since she was 13 I have encouraged a twice daily beauty regimen. To read her verse on Psalm 139 v14 twice a day. That she is fearfully and wonderfully made and know that full well. I would encourage any mother, grandmother, aunt, god mother to do the same for their own. Most teenagers in this secular world are so discouraged by everything thrown at them from school, college and the media they can do with all the building up and encouragement they can have, and that is what we can offer as the family of the church at St Andrew’s. We have promised to nurture young Amaury and Alais, we have promised to come along side the young Mr And Mrs Gordon, let us do that by being women searching after the heart of God. We need to seek God’s presence in prayer and reading the Bible. We need to know we are fine.
When people ask how are we and we reply FINE! Are we? Are you?
Do we really mean that or are we hiding how we really feel? I know I used to say that I was FINE when I was feeling a little Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic and emotional! That was my acronym for fine! Underneath our exteriors, I know because I have been there, there is a real woman who needs a real God! In Him there can be a different kind of fine. He really can give us such a peace that passes all understanding because we know we are in His hands. We belong to the most high God and therefore we are going to be fine!
I’m on a journey with my maker and this is a long term plan. I’m learning to be transformed slowly through God’s Spirit as I read God’s truths through his word. I am His and He is mine. I would encourage all of you to read God’s word daily, to wash your minds with God’s word and put His truths into your spirit so that you are renewed from the inside.
There is so much within us to be healed and it doesn’t happen overnight. We live in a world which is all about quick fixes, but that is not God’s journey for us. He wants to see us free to be the women he chose us to be and that requires a refining process where he frees us from our pain, rejection, shame and fear through repentance and acceptance.
Rick Warren said “ Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth. Spiritual maturity is neither instant nor automatic; it is a gradual, progressive development that will take the rest of your life. God is far more interested in who you are than in what you do. We are human beings, not human doings.
It’s a lifestyle to be learned, a life style based on living, breathing and moving in step with God’s spirit within us.
God wants us to be real with him, so perhaps we need to be more real with each other too. Even Jesus’ disciples asked him to pray! Jesus responds to us today as he did to his disciples – with an invitation to come and learn prayer from him, the One whose “yoke is easy”, and he reassures us with these words:
Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep Company with me and you’ll learn how to live freely and lightly. (Matthew 11:28 – 30 MSG)
The next part of this talk is based on a Liz Babbs book called “Into God’s Presence” and having chatted to monks, nuns, and bishops on the subject she believes our prayer life is a journey, with its inevitable ups and downs and that there is no such thing as an expert. The reassuring fact is that nobody has arrived – it’s an ongoing journey heavenward. All relationships fluctuate and take time to build and maintain, but I’m sure that God loves it even if we can only spend a minute with Him. Wouldn’t you want to spend a minute with your closest friend?
So what is meditation?
Spirituality is a popular word these days. In fact, an awareness of all things spiritual has multiplied in the past decade and created something of a spiritual supermarket. Even the word spiritual has been taken over by our consumerist culture and is seen as simply another way to get more out of life.
Not surprisingly, meditation techniques are becoming increasingly popular. In this age of self-help and self-enlightenment, many see it simply as a means to de-stress and achieve a sense of peace and well-being.
For the Christian, however, spirituality is not about getting more; it is, rather, essentially about relationship – a relationship focused on God, which embraces every aspect of one’s being. Centred on the teachings of Jesus, this relationship involves Bible study, prayer and contemplation.
When some people hear the word meditation, an automatic word association takes place; for them, meditation, equals transcendental meditation (TM).
This is understandable because back in the 1960’s, the Beatles popularised this form of meditation, and so all meditation became synonymous with TM. Many people don’t even realise that TM has a religious origin – in Hinduism.
Unfortunately, many Christians seem to be unaware of their own rich tradition in meditation – a tradition that originates in the Bible! The church has done little to encourage us to explore our roots in Christian meditation, a fact that has not only contributed to our current spiritual poverty but has meant that we are not being heard as Christians in today’s spiritual marketplace. It’s not surprising then that many describe meditation and contemplative prayer as “the best kept secret in the church”.
In his book Meditation – Why and How by Rev. Leonard C. Wilson, he describes meditation as follows;
Meditation is a mental and spiritual activity between an individual, or group, and God. The creation of a quiet space where one can be alone with God. The inner stillness in which God can speak, and an openness to God through which he can pour the gifts of his Spirit.
Meditation directs the mind away from self, and concentrates it upon God. It stops us thinking of ourselves, our difficulties, our needs and lets the mind soar beyond all this to God. In the silence of meditation we are learning how to open our hearts to the healing power of God’s love; then, because of the close link between our physical and mental states, the body responds in a variety of ways; it may be an increase in vitality, greater resistance to infection, the easing of tensions, pain or other physical disorders.
So what is Christian Meditation?
Christian meditation is a deep form of prayer that can lead to direct communion with God. It is not focused on experiences or requests, but on surrender. We are learning the simplicity of being with God.
When we emphasise experience we are in danger of developing a consumerist pick-‘n’-mix spirituality, where God’s presents to us matter more than his presence. Christian meditation is centred on listening to God and obeying his Word. There is no vague, unintelligible mantra spoken. We are simply following the instruction in the Bible to meditate on God’s Word: “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful” (Joshua 1:8).
Christian meditation differs from other forms of meditation because it does not require us to empty our minds and hearts, nor does it encourage a preoccupation with self. To quote Joyce Huggett in her book Learning the Language of Prayer:
Christian meditation must not be confused with yoga, Eastern meditation or transcendental meditation. For unlike these disciplines, Christian meditation engages every part of us – our mind, our emotions, our imagination, our creativity and, supremely, our will.
So how should we prepare ourselves?
I have found the mobile phone to be a good analogy and has helped me to have a much fuller understanding of the importance of prayer and meditation in my life and to communicate this with others. Like mobile communication, our relationship with God is dynamic; it’s every day, every hour, every minute, and it can be every bit as “cool” and exciting.
1) Switching On
First, before you can use the mobile phone, you have to switch it on. In the same way we have to take time to switch on to God, to show our willingness to spend time with him. Just expressing to him your openness is a start, as in this simple prayer:
Lord, help me to focus on you,
As we spend time together today.
Renew my mind and help me to let go
Of all the clutter that gets in the way.
2) Registering
Next, my mobile phone has to take a few seconds to register its connection to the phone system, which is a reminder to me to acknowledge my own connectedness to God. You need to admit your dependence on that connection:
Lord, you are my Father and Saviour,
Creator and Lord
Apart from you
I can do
Nothing.
3) Searching
Then my mobile phone screen tells me that it is searching for the particular person I am trying to call. It is trying to find his or her signal. This is like tuning into God’s presence, taking time just to be quiet and hear that “still small voice” of God. But if I hear nothing, I have not failed, because even wasting time with the one we love is valuable. In fact, it’s at the heart of prayer. As lovers grow in intimacy, words become unnecessary. We don’t spend time with God for what we get from him. Wasting time with God is always an investment. One day we will have nothing but time to spend with God – so our quiet time and Sabbath rests now are simply preparation for heaven.
4) Signal Strength Low
Tiredness, stress, anxiety, illness, relationship difficulties, interruptions, children screaming in another room will interfere with our ability to focus on God. Somehow, we have to learn either how to ignore the internal and external noises or how to incorporate them in such a way that they no longer become a distraction.
5) Battery Low
What a wonderful reminder battery low is. My mobile phone will only function foe twenty four hours before it displays this warning. At that point I have to recharge its batteries by plugging it into an electricity source.
In the same way we have to keep coming back to base, returning to our Source, which is God. This is exactly what Jesus did when he took time out to be with his Father: “After leaving them, he (Jesus) went up on a mountain to pray” (Mark 6:46).
The pattern of ministering and withdrawal, giving out and then receiving, is biblical. It is modelled by Jesus, and Jesus encouraged his disciples to adopt the same pattern. “Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest” “ (Mark 6:31).
We too can be recharged, re-energised and refocused by returning to base and taking time out with our Father.
6) Charging complete...
What a lovely thought! When our charging is complete, we are ready to face anything!
Are you ready to spend some time with God?
The first things you need to focus on are...
Becoming Still
In Psalm 46:10 God tells us to “Be still and know that I am God”
It certainly is a struggle to switch off from the busyness of life, and plug in to God. I usually find that music helps me to relax, or focusing on my breathing. Distractions, to do lists, anxiety and mind-chatter are the norm when meditating, so don’t think you’ve failed before you’ve started! Have a note pad at hand to jot important things down to help your concentration.
If you are still struggling to switch off, you could imagine that you have a special volume dial on the side of your head and visualise yourself turning down the noise and mind-chatter as you rotate the dial. I know this sounds strange, but I find this is a helpful technique.
Breathing
It has been said that that art of relaxation is concentration. As we concentrate on our breathing, it helps us to take our minds off other preoccupations and focus them on God who breathes life into all creation.
Try this simple breathing exercise to get you started:
· Inhale 1,2 ...
· Hold 1,2
· Exhale 1,2,3,4...
· Repeat several times
· Inhale 1,2, 3...
· Hold 1,2,3
· Exhale 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
· Repeat several times
Now try breathing “in the name of Jesus” as we breathe.
1)The Jesus Prayer
The Jesus prayer is an ancient prayer that comes in many forms, the most famous of which is “Lord Jesus, have mercy upon me, a sinner”. But an even simpler form is to repeat the name Jesus.
Spend a short time focusing on the rhythm of your breathing, and then repeat the name Jesus silently to yourself allowing the Holy Spirit to breathe new life into you. You could inhale “Je” and exhale “sus”, or say Jesus during or after exhalation...........
As we focus on Jesus in this way, we are reminded that He is our hope, our peace, our joy, our rock and our salvation. It is the name of Jesus that is at the heart of our prayers.... our lives.... our work..... our ministry..... our leisure.... our laughter... and our sorrow. Our whole being is dependent on Jesus.
2) Be Still... Breathe in for 2
And Know... Hold for 2
That I am God.... Breathe out for 4.
3) Going Deeper into God (Five minutes)
Song; Arise my darling.