Still, that rough sketch of a song was in my sheet music program, not in a hurry to be heard, just sitting there for years like an openhearted, very grounded meditator.
Then in May this year, I was working on a theme for my chorus inspired by a beautiful quote from the Qu'ran: "Everywhere you turn, there is the face of God."
Searching my sheet music files for dances which might fit that theme, I couldn't find a particular dance I was seeking. Instead, what appeared was that long-ago-lost beginning of a song to George Fox's words!
You'll hear in the sound file what happened next...George Fox's words that came to him out of the silence and the words that Mohammad wrote down as he heard them from God seemed very naturally to belong together, and so the song was born. From there came a brand new Dances of Universal Peace dance, which I brought to our Durham DUP community this week for the first time. It is quite a joyful song, and I fell in love with the looks on people's faces as they spin and then return to face the circle, throwing out their arms, and singing, like a little child seeing her mom, or dad or grandparent or best friend arriving: "There is God's face!"
Some of the dancers asked me if I had a sound file of the song and I said yes, and that I'd post it here. Eventually I will make sheet music and dance instructions and post them here as well.
music & dance © 2024 K Hannan
lyrics George Fox and the Qu'ran
Then you will come to walk
Cheerfully over the world
Answering that of God
In everyone
Then you will come to walk
Cheerfully over the world
Answering that of God
In everyone
Everywhere you turn
Everywhere you turn
Everywhere you turn
There is God's face!
Everywhere you turn
Everywhere you turn
Everywhere you turn
There is God's face!