Feb 10, 2025

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Who Is My Shepherd?

By Emily Strickland

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After attending a folk music festival in the August of my junior year of college, my relationship with God was reawakened, not because I realized that I believed in Him, but because I realized I didn’t believe in Him. This revelation was the inspiration for this piece. Originally intended to explore this new liberation from some old-standing Catholic guilt, this piece instead became a review of all the ways my relationship with God had manifested throughout my life, written about through the lens of communal call-and-response music. Through this piece, I was able to realize that throughout my life, music had been the through line between all of my most formative and spiritually resonant experiences with God.

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