'In the Bulb There Is A Flower' - Natalie Sleeth - Trinity Choir

Another hymn about the promise of spring and the hope of Easter is the lovely “In the Bulb There Is A Flower”, with words and music by Natalie Sleeth (1930-1992), a well known composer of anthems for choirs. She was especially noted for her compositions for children. Hannah Glass, our alto section leader, will sing this for our Offertory Anthem this week.

Composed as a choral anthem entitled “Hymn of Promise” and first performed in 1985, the hymn was included in The United Methodist Hymnal, published in 1989, and later was included in the hymnal Celebrating Grace in 2010. It was written at a time when the author states that she was "pondering the ideas of life, death, spring and winter, Good Friday and Easter, and the whole reawakening of the world that happens every spring."

“In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree; in cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free! In the cold and snow of winter there’s a spring that waits to be, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.”

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