kum bah yah, my Lord

1 corinthians 12:12-14,27-31; we are his people, sheep of his flock Ps 100; Lk 7:11-17

Kum bah yah, my Lord, kum bah yah...

Here is a spiritual song sung by many throughout the nations.

The text to the song can be found in different versions as follows:

Kum Bah yah, my lord, kum bah yah

kum bah yah, my lord, kum bah yah

someone's laughing Lord, kum bah yah

someone's laughing, Lord, kum bah yah

someone's laughing, Lord, kum bah yah

 O lord, kum bah yah

someone's crying, Lord, kum bah yah

someone's crying Lord, kum bah yah

someone's crying Lord, kum bah yah

O lord, kum bah yah

someone's praying Lord, kum bah yah

someone's praying Lord, kum bah yah

someone's praying Lord, kum bah yah 

 O Lord, kum bah yah

someone's singing, Lord, kum bah yah

someone's singing, Lord, kum bah yah

someone's singing, Lord, kum bah yah

O lord, kum bah yah

 

Kum bah yah simply means "come bye here"

As you read the gospel, you get sense that the woman who is about to bury her child groans from within, "kum bah yah, my Lord, kum bah yah, come bye here."

Then God comes, he makes a visitation. 

Through the body of Christ God visits his people. 

St. Paul exhorts us to remember that as believers who are baptized, we are now the body of Christ.  It is now through us that God visits his people. 

We are now the ones who must respond to the spiritual groans of the people, "kum bah yah, my Lord, kum bah yah." 

It is through our body God comes to their aid and visits his people.  

As the people devastated by famine, by war, by natural disasters, by violence, by abuse, by sickness, by pain and suffering all over the world cry out kum bah yah, my Lord, come bye here we must respond by allowing God to make himself known through us. 

"Kum bah yah my lord,come bye here" and we as believers must respond "here we come, Lord, here we come."