Before Jesus - Blickhan, Tim

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◈ Genre → Anthems

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G1 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 58

Texture Homophonic

Parts 4

Instruments Piano

Pages 6

CPDL # 69725

Editor Tim Blickhan

Posted 2022-06-16

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Soprano Alto

B-3 – F5

Tenor Bass

G2 – E4

MusicXML Part

G1 – E-4

¶Lyrics / Text

Before Jesus was his mother. Before supper in the upper room, breakfast in the barn. Before the Passover Feast, a feeding trough. And here, the altar of Earth, fair linens of hay and seed. Before his cry, her cry. Before his sweat of blood, her bleeding and tears. Before his offering, hers. Before the breaking of bread and death, the breaking of her body in birth. Before the offering of the cup, the offering of her breast. Before his blood, her blood. And by her body and blood alone, his body and blood and whole human being. The wise ones knelt to hear the woman’s word in wonder. Holding up her sacred child, her spark of God in the form of a babe, she said: “Receive and let your hearts be healed and your lives be filled with love, for This is my body, This is my blood.” Alla Renée Bozarth