6,000 celebrate with the ACC
May 3, 2009
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A hymn, “Lord of our diversity,” was commissioned for the gathering. Poet Mervyn Morris and composer Noel Dexter of Jamaica used music that recalled Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” to ask that God would “sanctify our listening and help us get the sense of perplexing arguments before we take offense.” Another verse prays that God would “teach us that opinions which at first may seem quite strange may reflect the glory of your great creative range.”