Hymn reflection for Advent https://hymnsocietygbi.org.uk/2020/12/dec-08-theres-a-light-upon-the-mountains-andrew-pratt/?fbclid=IwAR2G8O6-uBinuDlgRnxSuqztJp_ZACvLIlRKzDjtNvAHjLcaTOOMk-jWtNQ
Category: Hymns
Hymn of the Day from Advent to Epiphany
This fragile passing beauty – Remembrance – published a year and now recommended on Singing the Faith plus
hymnsandbooks.blog/2019/09/17/this-fragile-passing-beauty-remembrance-hymn/
This fragile, passing beauty…Remembrance hymn – New Link to performance
Hear this hymn being sung at This fragile, passing beauty
Early Autumn- Friend of the world…
Friend of the world, bright shining sun!
Reeling and dancing, life begun;
living and learning, climbing high,
soaring on wings as if to fly.
Friend of the ones we would despise,
fierce is the love within his eyes;
fierce in defence of poor or weak,
he offers love when we just speak.
Autumn is coming to the trees,
colour is drained from falling leaves;
darkness is covering all the earth,
His dance goes on, it finds new birth.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
© 1999 Stainer & Bell Ltd
LM Tune: MARYTON
Am I creation’s keeper Poem/hymnWritten 13/9/2020 while watching David Attenborough’s broadcast – ‘Extinction: The Facts’
Am I creation’s keeper,
a steward of this earth,
a singular vocation,
to measure all its worth?
As humans we must nurture,
the land, the sea, the air,
for all we see around us
is handed to our care.
Yet lost in self-obsession,
not feeding human need,
our greatest occupation,
is meeting human greed;
we cull and kill creation,
exterminate at will,
we hanker and we hunger
for more than just our fill.
The seas become polluted,
the forests burnt or felled,
the air a noxious fluid,
its temperature not held.
The world, unfit for purpose,
destroyed by human choice?
We need to hear the prophets,
to raise up every voice.
No faith or creed or preference,
exceeds our need for life,
this planet, all its value,
will it survive our strife?
When human life has ended,
this home left scarred and torn,
will God not weep with anger,
that we were ever born?
Written 13/9/2020 while watching David Attenborough’s broadcast:
Extinction: The Facts
Andrew Pratt, Words © 2020 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England, http://www.stainer.co.uk.
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Suggested Tune: SALLY GARDENS
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