Author: Andrew Pratt

Andrew Pratt was born in Paignton, Devon, England in 1948.

Mothering Sunday – a hymn and a song (re-posting with a link to a tune)

Two very different items for Mothering Sunday

God, you hold me like a mother – inspired by Psalm 131

God, you hold me like a mother,
Safely on her knee;
God, you hold me like a mother,
Close to you but free.

God, you watch me when I wander,
Keep me in your sight.
God, you watch me when I wander,
Hold me day and night.

God, you hold me like a mother,
Teach me to be free.
God, you hold me like a mother,
Show your love to me.

Words Andrew Pratt © 1995 Stainer & Bell Ltd & The Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd. Published in Big Blue Planet (1995)
Metre: 8 5 85 Trochaic
Tune: GOD YOU HOLD ME (George Bexon)

Vulnerable presence of God in creation

Vulnerable presence of God in creation, 
fragile, yes broken, in order to be;
cracking the egg of existence in birthing, 
mothering God who is setting us free.
	
Vulnerable God source of nature, will nurture, 
sharing our pain in the process of birth; 
bloodied, yet beautiful, changed, yet unchanging, 
passionate partner of love on this earth. 
	
Vulnerable God found in human relations, 
held as a baby, yes, suckled and fed; 
yet an enigma, creating and feeding, 
God is our parent, while being our bread.

Words Andrew Pratt © 2015 © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Metre: 11 10 11 10
Tune: STEWARDSHIP


Love inspired the anger – hymn

Love inspired the anger: Hymn for Lent 3 – John 2: 13-22

 

1          Love inspired the anger
            That cleared a temple court,
            Overturned the wisdom
            Which their greed had wrought.

2          Love inspired the anger
            That set the leper free
            From the legal strictures
            That brought misery.

3          Love inspired the anger
            That cursed a viper’s brood:
            Set on domination,
            Self with God confused.

4          Love inspires the anger
            That curses poverty,
            Preaches life’s enrichment,
            Seeks equality.

5          Love inspires the anger
            That still can set us free
            From the world’s conventions
            Bringing liberty.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
© 1993 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd & The Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes

Singing the Faith 253 (also published in 4 other books)
Metre: 6 6 6 5 Trochaic
Tunes: NORTH COATES; TEMPLE COURT