I will sing!
Every Easter, my childhood parish choir sang this song: " I will sing unto the Lord for He has triumphed gloriously, the horse and rider fell into the sea ." And I would cringe. After all, what kind of a human being celebrates the drowning of many horses and their riders??! As I grew older, I just refused to sing that line, even as part of the choir. I wanted no part in rejoicing over anyone's death. I was a pacifist to the core before I knew what the word pacifist meant. Obviously, I had never read the Bible and I had no idea that these were the very opening words of an actual song sung by a historical person- Miriam- after she was delivered along with her entire community from 400 years of slavery. Miriam was born into slavery. That is all she knew. Until she stood in the waters of the river Nile as a young child and watched an incredible miracle. The daughter of the man who had ordered all Hebrew baby boys to be murdered, heard her baby brother's cry and chose to