Day By Day- The Reason Behind the Title

When Carey set up this blog for me, she asked me what I wanted to call it. Day By Day just popped into my head. Later on, I couldn't get the music out of my head, but the title was all I remembered. I grew up in the '70's, and was active in Choir at church and Chorus at school. In 1971, a popular musical named Godspell produced a Billboard hit titled "Day By Day".

Godspell is an archaic spelling of the word "gospel". The musical Godspell  was by John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz. The song "Day By Day" is Schwartz's adaptation of a prayer of Richard of Chichester (1197-1253). Richard de Wych, or St. Richard (canonized in 1262), was the Bishop of Chichester.

                                                         Day By Day

                                                         Day by day
                                                         Day by day
                                                      Oh Dear Lord
                                                   Three things I pray
                                             To see thee more clearly
                                               Love thee more dearly
                                             Follow thee more nearly
                                                         Day by day

Such a simple, yet profound prayer. As Albert Einstein said, "When the solution is simple, God is answering."The theologian and hymn-writer,William P. Merrill, wrote, "There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is." I guess "Day By Day" is a good song to have stuck in my head.