The Daybreak Song arrived suddenly in meditation one morning. I quickly jotted down the simple melody and lyrics before the song could fade away. In the meditation I understood that if I sang the chant daily, like a prayer, it would bring profound change to my life. It has. May it do the same for you.
I have sung Daybreak Song at gatherings in many countries, but the song also seems to travel the world without me. I was at a gathering once in the remote Peruvian Amazon and was surprised to hear children there sing Daybreak Song in their own Achuar language. Then a friend told me they had heard it sung in India, in Hindi, and another said that they had first learned it in German. When I moved to a small island in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, I met a woman who said, "Lenedra Carroll? Oh I know you. I have a gathering at my home each Sunday and we always begin with your Daybreak Song."
I have many such stories and I love that this song has a life of its own.
