1. I Went Down to the River to PrayMark 1:4-11SermonRobert J. Elder ... to and about you was once spoken over you "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." You will never be the same again. You count. Amen. 1. Walter Brueggemann, Genesis Interpretation Commentary (Louisville: John Knox Press, 1982), pp. 24-25. 2. Alison Krauss, "Down To The River To Pray" (Santa Monica, California: Lost Highway Records, a Universal Music Company, © 2001). 3. Flannery O'Connor, "The River," The Complete Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1971), p. 157 ff.