Gathering Miriam

Gathering Miriam is Mary Beth Lecroy and Kiran Young Wimberly, fellow students here at PTS. They are having a concert on Thursday April 7, 2005 in the Gambrell Room upstairs in Scheide Hall. If you enjoy good folk music you'll love these talented ladies.

[from the insert to their cd]

The name "Gathering Miriam" is taken from the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 12. In this story, Miriam is struck with leprosy and forced to stay on the outskirts of her community. During her time of marginalization, her people do not leave her. They await her return, to gather her in again, before continuing on their way towards the promised land.

Like Miriam's community, we want to gather those stories from the outskirts, from the oppressed, from the unheard. We want to listen, and to learn how to tell those stories. We have found that singing is sometimes the best way to do this.

By singing these stories, we, and those who listen, pause in life's pleasures to count its many tears. For the tears are many, and need to be gathered, before we can all continue on the way toward our promised land.