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When sense is damaged, limiting perception – hymn – inspired by Mark 9: 30-37

When sense is damaged, limiting perception – inspired by Mark 9: 30-37


1 When sense is damaged, limiting perception,
God’s love will not diminish or betray,
for we are held in grace and loving kindness,
in pain, through grief and hardship, come what may.


2 The love of God defies our understanding,
God reaches to the depths of our despair
absorbing hate, discerning fear and anguish,
enabling, healing, wholeness and repair.


3 Our God is patient with our human frailty,
a strength in weakness when we slip or fall,
and so just as we are we come to worship
to offer back to God our all in all.


Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2012 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.

Metre: 11.10.11.10

Tune: HIGHWOOD

A hymn for a seeking faith inspired by Psalm 19 – The cosmic pulse

A hymn for  a seeking faith inspired by Psalm 19 - The cosmic pulse

1	The cosmic pulse that beats through all creation,
	two spinning stars, the pulsar's throbbing light;
	these wing beats, not a passing aberration,
	but angels thronging through the mists of night;

2	The whirling, dancing, trance that brings relation
	with all that is and all that is to be;
	the mystic, magic prayer, this wild elation
	you say will bring the love to set us free;

3	Our language cannot offer a description:
	Nirvana, heaven, call it what you will;
	this other world that fires our inspiration
	is all that conjures up the power to thrill.

4	The God we hymn, through praise and acclamation,
	we seek to meet through words or bread and wine;
	yet all the world inspires your incantation;
	together let us fathom truth's design.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2002 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 Iambic
Tunes: HIGHWOOD; INTERCESSOR
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