I wrote an arrangement of this beautiful Irish folk tune for solo voice, flute and piano for a college friend's vocal recital in 1979, and it eventually evolved into an SATB choral setting. I used it in manuscript form with various church choirs for a number of years, and it became the first anthem I had published in Bradley Ellingboe's Music for the Church Year series from Kjos Music. The text is by Jan Struther, and is well-known to Lutherans as the hymn Lord of All Hopefulness, #369 in the Lutheran Book of Worship.

Commissioned by Bloomington Covenant Church to honor Ken Fenton for his fifty years of sacred choral conducting, Do Not Be Afraid draws its text from Isaiah 43 with the refrain "Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you and called you by name. You are mine."

Another arrangement of a Ray Makeever original, from Ray’s collection Dancing at the Harvest, published by Augsburg Fortress. "Jubilee, jubilee, come O God of grace, take the place of honor at the jubilee."