They address God respectfully.
Except when she addresses God, she hardly has a line.
In the Lord's Prayer Jesus taught his disciples to address God as "our Father".
For those who object to joint prayer by different shades of Christian, the idea of Christians and Muslims jointly addressing God is presumably inconceivable.
This is not the music of a pianist addressing an audience but that of a composer addressing God -- and addressing, too, as a fellow child of God, the woman he imagined at the keyboard.
They describe him closing his eyes and addressing God with thees and thous, composing his message to suit the occasion, whether at a church meeting, at a hospital bedside or in a solemn moment with family and friends.
"We fight and kill each other in your name, defending you/ Do you love some more than others?/ We're so lost and confused," sings Ms. Parton, addressing God, as a gospel quartet spurs her on to the chorus.
I had determined not to speak to him - it would have been like addressing God - but when he came up to my bed, I couldn't help looking at him very hard, hoping and hoping that he would recognise me.
Here is Shelomo Ibn Gabirol, addressing God, his "gazelle": The conceits are taken from Arabic but as Cole shows, the poem throbs with Biblical allusions as well, and the effect is subtly polyphonic.
With astonishing audacity, Herbert opens this poem not by addressing God as "Love", but as the unmistakably sexual "Heat": "Immortal Heat, O let thy greater flame Attract the lesser to it".
