Have you ever felt like you didn’t belong anywhere? It is human nature to seek out a feeling of belonging and to try to find people like you. People like to know that they aren’t alone in the world, that they are part of a group who supports them, even if that group exists outside of their families, neighbors or coworkers, and they search far and wide to find that support.

One of the things I’m most thankful for is the professional musicians who take the words we so desperately cling to, feel, think – and turn them into beautiful, musical prayers.

These are turbulent times, and turbulent times have a tendency to stir up turbulence in our hearts and minds. As the Psalmist writes, ‘deep calls out to deep.”