Dear Readers,

I apologize for not having a regularly scheduled post up for you this morning. Due to the untimely illness and death of my cat, Hobbes, and my impending move to New Mexico, things are pretty crazy around here!

So, Best of UU is going on hiatus for the next three weeks as my family gets this move out of Chicago over with. Look for a new post on Monday, August 13th.

Until then, here are words from singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, from her new CD Children Running Through. You can listen to the song and an interview from NPR here.

I’m not sure if Patty is a Unitarian Universalist, but her songs resonate with many of us (I look forward to singing this one in church someday!).

Enjoy.

Heavenly Day

by Patty Griffin, from Children Running Through

Oh heavenly day, all the clouds blew away
Got no trouble today with anyone
The smile on your face I live only to see
It’s enough for me, baby, it’s enough for me
Oh, heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day

Tomorrow may rain with sorrow
Here’s a little time we can borrow
Forget all our troubles in these moments so few
All we’ve got right now, the only thing that
All we really have to do
Is have ourselves a heavenly day

Lay here and watch the trees sway
Oh, can’t see no other way, no way, no way
Heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day

No one at my shoulder bringing me fears
Got no clouds up above me bringing me tears
Got nothing to tell you, I’ve got nothing much to say
Only I’m glad to be here with you
On this heavenly, heavenly, heavenly, heavenly
Heavenly day, all the trouble’s gone away
Oh, for a while anyway, for a while anyway
Heavenly day, heavenly day, heavenly day

Source: Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, from Children Running Through

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