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Thread #105499   Message #2171935
Posted By: ClaireBear
15-Oct-07 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: There Is a Place (Liam Lawton)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: time to remember
I found a mention of the song in a church newsletter. But at least it includes the aurthor's name, so perhaps someone else who is familiar with the name can take it from here:

From this page of a San Diego, CA (I presume) church's newsletter:

"One of my favorite songs in Liam Lawton's collection is the
song he wrote for a Memorial Service after 9/11. It begins
'There's a time to remember, a time to recall…' That song
seems to complement the famous list in Ecclesiastes 3
which begins, 'there is a season for everything, a time for
every occupation under heaven, a time for giving birth, a
time for dying, a time for planting, a time for uprooting…'
Yet Ecclesiastes does not mention a time for remembering.
It is strange, to say the least, that the wise Qoheleth
overlooked such a kernel of wisdom when compiling his
list. Did he, perhaps, just intend to intone the litany, leaving
the completion of it to each on of us? I like to think so."