When I was involved in Guiding, there was a need to create non-denominational graces for units to use at events. I had a lot of fun creating several graces sung to the tunes of popular songs of the time (e.g. “The Barbie Girl Grace”) as well as common Guiding tunes (e.g. “Shawn’s Grace” to the tune of “Fire’s Burning”). Some of them are still circulating at http://www.users.ms11.net/~gsong/Graces/nondom.html
I find it somewhat ironic that if you search Grace and “Shawn Bird” on the internet, these old graces show up, along with references to Grace Awakening. The graces are all given for free use within Guiding and I am thrilled when every once in awhile I stumble across some reference to one being used at a Guiding event. It’s kind of nice that my words are still being used within Guiding.
You’ll notice that my collection of Rotary Invocations follow the same model. I create non-denominational invocations for use in Rotary. If Rotarians would sing, I’d get them to use those Guiding Graces, but I just can’t see it happening. 😉
Shawn L. Bird 