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At the request of many readers, a selection of poems that have appeared in Unfolding Light’s daily reflections over the years is now available in a book!
Unfolding Light – Poems is a collection of 184 poems gathered from 45 years of writing. They are part of my practice of wonder. They include reflections on daily life, scripture passages, walking in the woods, contemplative prayer, the natural world, dogs, bees, and driving across Montana with a peach. They’re rooted in my observation that the world is a thin place, filled with mystery, the divine presence, tears of every kind, and abundant blessing.
We are currently taking pre-orders. Advance orders will help us determine how many copies to print. Orders are expected to ship in summer 2024.
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[Pre-order] Unfolding Light – Poems
$22.00[Pre-order] Unfolding Light – PoemsAdd to cartUnfolding Light - Poems is a collection of 184 poems gathered from 45 years of writing. They are part of my practice of wonder. They include reflections on daily life, scripture passages, walking in the woods, contemplative prayer, the natural world, dogs, bees, and driving across Montana with a peach. They’re rooted in my observation that the world is a thin place, filled with mystery, the divine presence, tears of every kind, and abundant blessing.This is a pre-order. Books will be published and shipped by summer 2024. -
[Pre-order] Unfolding Light – Poems (Signed Copy)
$25.00[Pre-order] Unfolding Light – Poems (Signed Copy)Add to cartThis is a version of Unfolding Light - Poems that will be signed by the author, Steve Garnaas-Holmes. If you have a request for the signature to be dedicated to anyone or anything in particular, please include a note in the "Order notes (optional)" section of the checkout page.Unfolding Light - Poems is a collection of 184 poems gathered from 45 years of writing. They are part of my practice of wonder. They include reflections on daily life, scripture passages, walking in the woods, contemplative prayer, the natural world, dogs, bees, and driving across Montana with a peach. They’re rooted in my observation that the world is a thin place, filled with mystery, the divine presence, tears of every kind, and abundant blessing.This is a pre-order. Books will be published and shipped by summer 2024. -
A Baptismal Liturgy
$0.00 or moreA Baptismal LiturgyAdd to cartThis is not music, but a service of baptism which may be adapted for a baptism, Confirmation, and/or service of congregational baptismal renewal. -
A Maundy Thursday Foot-washing Liturgy
$0.00 or moreA Maundy Thursday Foot-washing LiturgyAdd to cartA liturgy for a foot-washing service. View the service here. -
A Palm-Passion Service (Mark)
$0.00 or moreA Palm-Passion Service (Mark)Add to cartA Service for Palm-Passion Sunday using Mark's story of the Palm procession and the Passion as the framework for the liturgy. View the service here. -
A Safe, Healing Place
$0.00 or moreA Safe, Healing PlaceAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Be Thou My Vision. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God of all living, we truly are blessed: you are our home and our soul’s gentle nest. Even the swallows shall find in your arms safety and beauty and rest from all harm. As you have welcomed us into this space, help us find others who long for your grace, those who seek shelter and all those who roam. Make of our living a warm, welcome home You have forgiven and blessed us today, healed us and raised us to go on our way: send us in courage with trust in your grace, to make of this world a safe, healing place. -
Abounding Harvest
$0.00 or moreAbounding HarvestAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
2 Corinthians 9.10
Tune: KREMSER (“We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing”) Lyrics: O God, you have scattered your gifts and your blessings, the bread that gives life and the seed that grows. Your grace is astounding, the harvest is abounding. You give to the poor, and our cup overflows!
We come to the banquet, as each one is able, rejoicing and voicing our thanks and our praise. While singing we’re bringing our gifts to your table, that we may serve you through all of our days.
As you have enriched us, so may we be giving, and sow as we’ve reaped, in abundance and trust: now gratefully giving through all of our living the grace that you offer; for share it we must.
Our God who has planted and nurtured now harvests, and so we surrender our lives to God’s use. With Christ as our Vine, we are branches in his spirit, all bearing fruit in love, and made one in God’s Peace. May be included with previous verses, or used as a sending song at the end of worship: We go now, confessing our love and our blessing for each, our companions in service and grace. We’ll nourish each other as sister and brother, to serve as God’s Bread for the whole human race. -
Adorning Your House
$0.00 or moreAdorning Your HouseAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to "Cradle Song" (Hear it in the Product Description below). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Includes four-part choir arrangement. Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: CRADLE SONG Lyrics: Adorning your house, God, with branches of green, we pray that your glory may clearly be seen. Now fill us with love that your promise imparts, with hope and with joy in the rooms of our hearts. These beautiful branches we hang will make clear that you are soon coming, O Jesus, so dear. So bless us each day as your coming draws near, to live so that others can tell you are here. We ask for your blessing to pour from above, that we may be gentle, with patience and love. Like green living branches, may all that we do be signs that your promise is now coming true. -
Advent Blessing Songs
$0.00 or moreAdvent Blessing SongsAdd to cartTwenty-five one-verse songs for the congregation to sing to each other, set to familiar Christmas tunes, suitable for the end of the service and other worship moments. -
Advent Candle Prayers
$0.00 or moreAdvent Candle PrayersAdd to cartA collection of sixty prayers for lighting Advent candles (plus the Christ Candle on Christmas) reflecting each week's lectionary texts, for Years A, B and, C. Samples: Light of God, awaken us. Light of Christ, encourage us. Light of the Spirit, lead us. May we shine with your light, as signs of your coming. God of light, as we light this candle in this season of darkness our hearts ache for your promise. Dawn upon us and be our light. Our hearts ache for your presence. Awaken us to your nearness. Our hearts ache for your grace. Holy Spirit, transform our desires, and shape our hope by your light in us, as we await your coming in peace. -
Advent Candle Prayers (Series 2)
$0.00 or moreAdvent Candle Prayers (Series 2)Add to cartA set of scripture readings (mostly from the day's assigned lectionary texts) and responsive prayers for the lighting of Advent candles. Sample: LIGHTING THE FIRST ADVENT CANDLE — Romans 13.11-12 (You know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.) RESPONSE God of light, as we light this candle in this season of darkness, our hearts ache for your presence. Dawn upon us and be our light. Spirit of hope, in this season of waiting we turn to you. Direct our longing, bless us with your patience, and grant us your hope. O Loving Christ, keep our spirits awake as we await your coming. Clothe us in trust and joy, the the armor of light, the glad raiment of love. Come, Beloved Jesus, come, and grant us your light. Amen. -
Advent Eucharistic Prayers
$0.00 or moreAdvent Eucharistic PrayersAdd to cartFour musical Eucharistic prayers set to familiar Christmas tunes. They may either be sung as an invitation to communion or as the Eucharistic prayer itself. -
Advent Eucharistic Responses
$0.00 or moreAdvent Eucharistic ResponsesAdd to cartTwenty-five sets of Eucharistic Prayer responses (Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation and Amen) set to familiar Christmas tunes. Some also include a doxology. Download includes lyrics and music for congregation (and some for musicians also.) -
Advent Responses
$0.00 or moreAdvent ResponsesAdd to cartA collection of single verses for invocation, scripture affirmation, prayer response, offertory, etc., with original lyrics by Steve Garnaas-Holmes, to the tune of Away in a Manger.
Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
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Advent Table Songs
$0.00 or moreAdvent Table SongsAdd to cartTwenty-two one-verse songs with original lyrics by Steve Garnaas-Holmes: doxologies and invitation to communion, set to familiar Christmas tunes. -
Advent Wreath Prayers
$0.00 or moreAdvent Wreath PrayersAdd to cartTwo series of four prayers for lighting Advent wreath candles that reflect themes of each week's Lectionary readings. Samples: Series 1 Week 1 We praise you, O God, for this evergreen crown that marks our days of preparation for Christ’s advent. As we light the first candle on the wreath, rouse us from sleep, that we may be ready to greet our Beloved when he comes with our healing in his hands. Enlighten us with your grace, that we may live in peace as signs of your advent among us. Kindle within us the gift of hope through Christ our Beloved, whose coming is certain and whose day draws near. Amen. Series 2 Week 1 This wreath is the great circle of time, held in the promise of God. Light dawns; a new day is coming. Stay awake and be ready, for you don't know when grace will appear! God of love, teach us to see with eyes of faith. Direct our hope, an d transform our longing. Keep us alert to your coming, shining with mercy and lively with hope. -
Advent-to-Christmas Story
$0.00 or moreAdvent-to-Christmas StoryAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Most effective as a solo. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: In the darkest time of year, a time of hope, and a time of fear, the prophet says that God is coming to you. And so we turn from greed and hate, still learning to pray and watch and wait, and sing our fragile, hopeful hallelujah. Hallelujah... Young Mary said her “Yes” to him, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and laid him in a manger, that'll do you. The light of love shone in the night. The shepherds came to see the sight, and angels sang a glorious Hallelujah. Hallelujah... Some wise men traveled from afar, just following such a tiny star, as if its simple light could shine right though you. They gave their treasures to the king, who makes you want to serve and sing, who tells you you can be his Hallelujah. Hallelujah... -
All of the Gifts I Have
$0.00 or moreAll of the Gifts I HaveAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to Tune: Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Lyrics: All of the gifts I have, all that is within me, you give to me, O God, with care; all of my prayers and skills, passions and energies you grant to me to freely share.
Here are my hopes and dreams, attitudes and deepest loves, all of the treasure to which I cling. I will not hold them in, stilling my ardent song, but serving you I’ll freely sing.
In all I keep or give, may I do my very best in everything I say and do, in harmony with you, only to love and bless, with joy, to serve and honor you. -
All that We Hold in Our Hands
$3.00 or moreAll that We Hold in Our HandsAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Listen to a audio clip in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: What do we hold in our hearts? The hopes of a hungering people, longing for you, and for bread, and to truly be free. What can we do, who are small? The power is not ours at all: God, you have hidden such grace here in our hands. What do we hold in our hands? Nothing we have is unworthy. An everyday gift you can use in miraculous ways. All that we hold in our hands you’ll use if we give it to you. Use what we hold in our hands for what you will do. What do we hold in our hands? In it you’ve hidden the wondrous, fishes and loaves you can use to feed thousands with love. All that we hold in our hands we give in the name of your Son: more than we ask or imagine, may your will be done. What do we hold in our hands? Grace is abundant, not lacking. Look now and see what we have and find power and life. All that we hold in our hands, all that we have or can do, all that we are by your grace we give now to you. -
All Things Bright and Beautiful
$0.00 or moreAll Things Bright and BeautifulAdd to cartThe Refrain and verse one are the original, by Cecil Alexander. Verses 2-4 are by Steve Garnaas-Holmes. (Refrain) All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful: the Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, God made their glowing colors, and made their tiny wings. The animals that guide us and bear our heavy loads remind us of the God who walks with us on all our roads. (Refrain...) The creatures who befriend us and love us faithfully make God’s pure love, that never tests, so clear and plain to see. (Refrain...) With many kinds of glory, all fish and bugs and birds call forth our thanks and wonder and praise beyond all words. (Refrain...) -
All Through Your Life
$0.00 or moreAll Through Your LifeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of All Through the Night. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Dear Beloved, God will bless you all through your life, Love's own gentle hand caress you, all through your life. You are made by God's designing, with the holy Presence shining. Grace will be your silver lining all through your life. Journey hand in hand with Jesus all through your life. Walk with him who heals and frees us all through your life. Like him may you be forgiving, generous and freely giving. Risen, new, receive your living, all through your life. May the Holy Spirit lead you all through your life, guide, protect, renew and feed you all through your life. In the light of our redeeming, with divine compassion gleaming, be a light for others, beaming all through your life. -
Always New
$0.00 or moreAlways NewAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Gift of Love or Tallis' Canon. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God, you make me always new. Each breath I breathe is life from you, a gift of love that sets me free. Beloved, breathe new life in me. O Christ, you call me to new birth like God’s creation of the earth, to leave the things I’m fastened on and walk into the rising dawn. O loving Spirit, live in me. Forgive my sin and set me free. Give me new birth, life from above, that I may live in your deep love. -
Angels in Disguise
$3.00 or moreAngels in DisguiseAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Hear it in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: For the angels in all disguises who have loved us in so many ways, we have come to expect your surprises; we have come to sing your praise. God, you have loved us more than we believe. Help us to be humble; help us to receive. We have asked for your Word’s revealing without listening to all that you say, and the ones who would bring us your healing we have pridefully turned away. God, you have loved us... When we dare to be unprotected from a foe of Samaritan cast, when we welcome the ones we rejected, then we meet you, God, at last. God, you have loved us... Have we enemies? Love them dearly, for the ones we reject or despise are the ones we will some day see clearly as your angels in disguise. God, you have loved us... -
Anna and Simeon’s Song
$3.00 or moreAnna and Simeon’s SongAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Luke 2.25-38. For congregation or solo (or duet). [Hear it in the Product Description below.]
Lyrics: Today I held in my trembling hands such a child so pure: a gift of grace, God’s human face, love so tenderly given. Wonder! Wonder! How God’s promise is sure! Fears cease in hope and peace: earth has now become heaven. Today I saw with my wondering eyes such a child divine! My heart sang out for all about shone the light of the Near One. Wonder! Wonder! That this joy could be mine. Jesus has come to us, the Beloved, the Dear one. Today you’ll meet in a simple way such a Presence, a Friend: the Gentle One refuses none with God’s tender salvation. Wonder! Wonder! Miracle without end! Praise, pray and everyday bow in deep adoration. -
Anointing
$0.00 or moreAnointingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Jesus, as we try to follow on your journey toward the cross, we ourselves will come to suffer weakness, loneliness and loss. But in love you turn to heal us: you let go all goods and powers, gently sharing all our troubles, making them your own, not ours. Jesus, in your grace and mercy, you share all our pain and tears. You anoint us with your love and heal our wounds and calm our fears. So, like Mary with her perfume, we bring gifts of love to you, sharing death and resurrection, trusting lives will be made new. -
As the Darkness, Soft, Descending
$0.00 or moreAs the Darkness, Soft, DescendingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of All Through the Night. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As the darkness, soft, descending, wraps us in night, God, with gentle love unending, you hold us tight. As we sleep you closely tend us, bless, forgive, renew and mend us, from all fear and toil defend us, as your delight. Silence now, with all its graces, wraps us in prayer, as your presence, deep, embraces each soul with care. Now to you our lives we render, trusting you, all-wise and tender. May our sleep, our dear surrender be, Love, our prayer. -
At Home In You
$0.00 or moreAt Home In YouAdd to cartOriginal lyrics, reflecting John 14.2, 6, set to the tune of Finlandia. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We give you thanks, O loving God, Creator, for in your house are many rooms to dwell. Your Christ prepares a place for all your people where we are one, made holy and made well. Give us your life; make us your holy people, to shine with light, and your good news to tell. The place you make, O Jesus, for your people is not far off, but near—too near to see. It is the home of love within God’s loving, the place of peace where we are called to be. Bring us to you, that love may be our dwelling, at home in you, in love eternally. We give you thanks, O Loving Christ, companion; you are the truth, you are the life, the way. For when we share in love's divine communion, we are by grace alive in every way. Grant us to love, with you in blessed union, love be our faith, our truth, our life, our way. -
At Your Feet
$3.00 or moreAt Your FeetAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Listen to it in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: Jesus, at your feet I bow. I am yours completely now. By your mercy show me how to be loving. Jesus, Master, you who save, you have served me as a slave. This, the perfect gift you gave: to be loving. In each hurting one I meet it is you, O Christ, I greet. Make my faithfulness complete, to be loving. -
Awaken Us, God
$0.00 or moreAwaken Us, GodAdd to cartTen verses for use as responses throughout Advent and Christmas. Original lyrics set to the tune of Away in a Manger. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Sample lyrics: Hope Oh hear us, we pray, God, for dark is the night, and still we are waiting in hope for the light. Oh teach us to trust you, preparing the way, until with rejoicing we enter the day. Joy We pray that your Word may be born in our hearts, that we may shine bright with the joy it imparts. We pray as we wait for Emmanuel's birth the light of our hope may illumine the earth. (Christmas) Love The little child rests in his mother's embrace; and we have been blessed by God's love and God's grace. God, open our hearts that we each may know there Emmanuel's birth in the love that we share. -
Baptism – a Brief Glimpse
$0.00 or moreBaptism – a Brief GlimpseAdd to cartAn overview of the meaning of Baptism. -
Baptized in Light
$0.00 or moreBaptized in LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Baptized in water, we are your creatures, each son and daughter washed and reborn, fully forgiven, blessed and made new now, buried and risen into the morn. Baptized in light, God, we are your vessels, love shining bright in all that we do, as new creations, we are your glory, bright with elation, radiant with you. Baptized in Spirit, we are your servants. This we inherit: to be your light, Christ rising in us, healing and blessing, poor given justice, blind given sight. Baptized in love, my dearest companions, Spirit’s bright dove fly with you each day. God’s light revealing, go now in peace, friends, blessing and healing, lighting the way. -
Be the Living Word
$0.00 or moreBe the Living WordAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of HOLY MANNA. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As you go to serve Creation bear the Word of God with you, Word that brings forth light now dwelling in your heart and shining through. Do not merely say the words: become the Word. Embody grace. Be the living Word and give the love of God a human face. To the poor in spirit go, and give them bread for which they long. Nourish them for love and justice. Feed their souls and make them strong. Be the hearty bread that’s taken, blest and broken day by day. Be the bread of love made real, bread that Jesus gives away. Do not try to serve with only your own passion to impart. Let the love of God flow through you from the Source, from Heaven’s Heart. Pass along God’s deep forgiveness, flowing freely from the Lord. Be the wine of God’s great feast, the wine so generously poured. By the Spirit living in you, be the hope you hope to preach; be the peace you long to witness; be the truth you want to teach. Let your living be the Word that words alone cannot convey. Be the Word of love embodied; be the flesh of Christ today. -
Be Thou My Wisdom
$0.00 or moreBe Thou My WisdomAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: SLANE (Be Thou My Vision)
Lyrics: Be thou my Wisdom and grant me your sight. Help me to see by your love’s perfect light. Love, be my compass, my balance, my Way: guide from within what I choose day by day.
Grant me the wisdom to seek and to learn, to pray for your leading and wait and discern. Help me to listen with all of my heart, listen for all of the Truth you impart.
Grant me your Wisdom: a heart that’s made pure, courage to follow a love that is sure. Led by your Spirit, listening still, help me to know and to follow your will.
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Bearers of Light
$0.00 or moreBearers of LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, how you love us, hold us and bless us, reign from above us, lead us by hand Call us to healing, bound by your Promise, your Word revealing, by your command. Great holy giver of life and wonder, deep like a river your blessings flow. Gladly we give you praise and thanksgiving: gifts we will give wherever we go. Baptized, anointed, filled with your Spirit, we are appointed bearers of light: for liberation, servants of justice, bringing the nations joy and delight. -
Beatitudes: versions and meditations
$0.00 or moreBeatitudes: versions and meditationsAdd to cartA collection of ten paraphrases and eight meditations on the beatitudes. -
Becoming Whole
$3.00 or moreBecoming WholeAdd to cartOriginal song. Several verses may be used, or one verse repeated. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: We are a broken people becoming whole again. We are a wounded people being healed again. We are a hungry people being fed again. We are a wandering people coming home again. We are a groaning people giving birth again. ... And more... -
Before My Eyes
$0.00 or moreBefore My EyesAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of For the Beauty of the Earth. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Prophets plainly speak your Word, but are silenced and not heard. Miracles will pass us by, hidden by the jaundiced eye. Spirit, help me realize: you are here before my eyes. Acts of courage, though unseen; in forgiveness hearts washed clean; deeds of love, though they are small: most miraculous of all! Spirit, help me realize: you are here before my eyes. How the outcast choose to live, how the poor in spirit give, how the ones we ostracize give gifts we don’t recognize! Spirit, help me realize: you are here before my eyes. Letting expectations go, humbly knowing I don’t know, blessing what the moment brings, finding grace in humble things: Spirit, help me realize: you are here before my eyes. Help me seek the truth today, set aside what others say, speak your Word and trust your grace— miracles will then take place! Spirit, help me realize: you are here before my eyes. -
Behold the Lamb
$3.00 or moreBehold the LambAdd to cartOriginal song. A simple line; may be repeated as a continuing chant. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Come let us follow the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. -
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
$0.00 or moreBenedictus (Song of Zechariah)Add to cartLuke 1.68-79. Original lyrics set to the tune of Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.
Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Blessed be the God of Israel! You came among us to redeem. You have raised a mighty savior for us, as the prophets used to dream. As you promised, you have saved us, so that we may serve with grace, unafraid, with holy spirits, in your presence all our days. You, child, go before our God as prophet: show the people mercy’s way, so they know they are forgiven, saved and brought into a brand new day. Day is dawning—tender mercy! Grace and light of God, increase! Come to those in death and shadows. Guide us in the ways of peace. -
Blessed
$3.00 or moreBlessedAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Includes version for four-part choir.
Lyrics: Dear God, receive me anew, mourning and poor in my soul, hungry for what makes me whole. Bless me by making me simple like you.
Refrain: Blessed are the ones who have nothing but God, for God and God alone shall fill their lives.
Mercy please grant me anew. Make my heart pure by your grace, humble, that I may see your face. Bless me by making me gentle like you. Refrain.
Courage please give me anew, peace in the world to make, and to suffer for your Gospel’s sake. Bless me by making me faithful to you. Refrain.