Here are links to a meditation written months ago for this date and to a song written decades ago. (Today’s other entries are HERE and HERE.) — MCM 

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Psalm 137:1. By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered you, O Zion.

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Each time I hear these words I remember, by Kathryn Nishibayashi | Forward Movement  This verse takes me back to the night of Sept. 11, 2001. I was a couple weeks into my freshman year of college and had joined the college women’s Glee Club. We met in the lower level of the college chapel and learned a piece by the American folk singer Don McLean called “Babylon,” which includes the words of this scripture passage in the lyrics. Upstairs in the chapel, a group was organizing a prayer service in response to the terrorist attacks, and . . . Click HERE to read more. Click HERE to listen to the song.