'Qui cantat, bis orat': our words borne on music ascend on the ladder of prayer. We scale with our singing and rise up in chorus for life that is noble and fair. Once singing, we're praying and double our longing for friendship together on earth; we pray for the one-ness of men, women, children in search of their calling and worth. Then teach us, Creator, to see you beside us; you are our beginning, our end. Be with us in being and in our becoming, God, cosmic, yet close as a friend.