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432 Break The Wine Glass (FBTF CD)

by Mark Shepard

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This song got launched when a guest speaker at Unity Church In Albany offered a single line quote from a Rumi poem, “The New Rule”
“Break the wineglass, fall towards the glass blower’s breath” After the service I just kept being haunted by that phrase…

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Break the Wine Glass

Song #432 | 7/31-8/6 2011 | CD: The Fire Before The Flame

Break the wine glass.
Fall into the breath of the glass blower
Break the boundaries that used to keep you small
Break the silence.
Fall into the breath of the sound
Break the patterns.
Fall to your knees on the ground

Refrain:
And on the way you might notice a flower
Growing out of a crack in the sidewalk
And on the way you might notice the power
 you have
To walk your talk and dance into your dreaming…

Walk the garden
Glimpse the world through the gardeners eyes
Has your heart hardened?
Is there no room left for surprise?
Break it open
Scatter the seeds of surrender
Water them well
Do your best to protect the tender…

Refrain:

Your greatest weaknesses
Are also your greatest strengths
Your greatest failures
May just have been heaven sent…
Will the wind break you
Or lift you off the ground?
Will the wind break you
Or merely bow you down?

Refrain: X2

…Break the wine glass…
Fall into the breath of the glass blower…

Copyright 2011 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.

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released March 13, 2016

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Mark Shepard Albany, New York

Welcome to my “Life In Song” project.

Since 1976, I’ve been obsessively and compulsively writing songs. Some of them are inspired by my own life, my attempts to understand love, life, spirituality, peace and justice.

While I recently have started to get a little recognition, you’ve probably never heard my songs ANYWHERE.

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