When evil gathers in the wings - A hymn for Remembrance at a time of international tension
1 When evil gathers in the wings the time of crisis offers choice: to rise with courage and resist or keep our silence, still each voice. What shall we do when chaos reigns, act out God’s love? Submit to chains?
2 As history echoes from the past, while memories can tend to fade, ‘lest we forget’ let us recast the hard decisions others made: to live the love that Christ had shown, self-sacrificial, Spirit blown.
For all its beauty snow and ice can be dangerous, or keep us in our homes. This week’s text looks back to memories and forward to hopes, to sunlight glinting on the water
1 Sunlight glinting on the water, moonlight filtered by the trees, nature constantly reminding, spirit moving with the breeze, God is present in creation, God is here in such as these.
2 Holding visions in our memories, cherishing all we have known, things of beauty, scenes of wonder, gifts of grace we cannot own, all the joys that God has given, all the love that Christ has shown.
3 Now we come to offer worship for each heart and mind’s delight, for all human care and friendship, for the soaring spirit’s flight, God we offer praise each morning for your living, dancing light.
Temples now and then – This towering edifice of shining glass – inspired by Mark 13:1-8
1 This towering edifice of shining glass which speaks of power, of status and of class. will one day fall, a glittering shower of shards, will flutter like the children's house of cards.
2 These temples of our vanity and pride like expectations of the crucified will lie in dust and rubble that we raze, not like the Christ who, later, God might raise.
3 We need to hear that sharp prophetic cry reminding of the ones we would deny. Self-righteous hypocrites will meet their end. Neglected people find in Christ a friend.
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