Do Not Leave Your Cares At the Door
by Elizabeth Alexander
4-Part - Sheet Music

Mixed Chorus (SATB choir a cappella) - Moderately Easy

SKU: SF.SEA-071-00

Composed by Elizabeth Alexander. Community Chorus, High School Chorus, Concert Music, Church Choir-Anthem. Sacred-Special Church Events-Building Dedication, Welcome, Forgiveness, Worship & Praise, Choral. Octavo. With Text language: English. Duration 3 minutes. Published by Seafarer Press (SF.SEA-071-00).

Lyrics by Norman V. Naylor, adapted by Elizabeth Alexander.

Welcome and acceptance are at the heart of this warm choral offering, served up in a feast of old-time gospel with an embracing "Amen." A powerful concert opener, call to worship, or building dedication song.
Effective as a concert opener, call to worship, or building dedication.

Text: Do not leave your cares at the door. Do not leave them there when you come into this place. Be open to forgiveness and transformation - Come on in; you are welcome here; And do not leave your cares at the door. Bring your pain and sorrow and joy, There's a place for them upon the altar of life. Be open to forgiveness and transformation - Come on in; you are welcome here; And do not leave your cares at the door. This is a place of grace, Of losing and finding the way upon the winding road, Meeting and parting, Stumbling and starting over. Every journey is sacred here, even yours. Do not leave your cares at the door. Do not leave them there when you come into this place. Be open to forgiveness and transformation - Come on in; you are welcome here; And do not leave your cares at the door. Amen. Original poem copyright 1997 by Norman V. Naylor. Adapted text copyright 2006 by Elizabeth Alexander, for use in musical setting only.