Zachary Walters, a Master of Divinity student at Union Seminary and an intern this year at St. Lydia’s, preached this sermon on Psalm 137 at Dinner Church on September 22.<\/p>\n
That \u201cGoing-Back-Home\u201d Feeling<\/p>\n
We all know what it feels like to go back home.
\nTo let out a deep breath,
\nand feel your whole brain relax.
\nAfter a long day of subways and sidewalks and carrying things and bumping people,
\nthe air just feels a little better, a little calmer, when you get back home.
\nI feel it when I set foot into my parent\u2019s house,
\nwhere I grew up,
\nand now, after seven years,
\nIf I was out of town,
\nI start to feel it when I get closer to that
\nfamiliar New York skyline.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, I feel it on Sunday evenings
\nwhen I first step into the Zen center.
\nI felt it as a child
\nin my grandmother\u2019s house especially.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where we spent most holidays, my family.
\nWhen we all got together we numbered more than twenty,
\nand every time, at least once, we would gather around the piano,
\nand my grandmother would plink out a couple of chords everyone knew.
\n\u201cThe Waters of Babylon\u201d was one of them, a song based on this psalm.
\nPretty soon she got everyone singing,
\nwhether they knew the words or not.
\nMy grandmother is just that kind of woman.<\/p>\n
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