Katie's prayer: Chris Tomlin's "We Fall Down"

My prayer today actually isn't going to be on the song itself, but instead the last time I heard the song. It was actually three weeks ago today. I was sitting in mass helping with Totus Tuus at St. Gabe's. It's kinda like Vacation Bible School only cooler cause it's Catholic to the core, and they do stuff for high schoolers too. So it's way cool. But anyways, onto the story. I was sitting in mass and this was our communion song. Near the end, the musicains had to go up and recieve Jesus, but the song continued with 120+ 1st-5th graders singing "we cry holy, holy, holy" over and over again.

The kids got mass points everyday for how loudly they sang, spoke, if they kept mass hands and avoided lazy butt. And if they got 10 mass points by the end of the week, they would get to "sundae" one of the teachers. Basically put sundae topings all over them. So myabe their motivation for singing loudly was a tad different than, lets say, my motivation for singing loudly. Regardless of their reasoning, the singing was absolutely beautiful. Half of them were no where near being in key, some were singing slower than others, some louder, and it was a complete mess. But in that complete mess was complete beauty. Those kids were singing from their hearts. They didn't care that they were out of tune, they didn't care that they were off beat, they didn't care what the person next to them was thinking or doing, all they cared about at that moment was singing at the top of their lungs. We cry HOLY HOLY HOLY!

You know, kids have a lot to learn from adults. But I would also argue we have a lot to learn from them.

We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy
We cry holy holy holy is the Lamb