Category: worship

Coming soon – Hymn of the Day –

Watch this space —

Hymn of the Day returns for a third Series this coming Thursday (1st July) and will continue, with a new hymn and commentary each day, throughout the month. The theme this time is ‘hymns strongly based on scripture’ so there is plenty of scope for the thirty one hymns, ‘Ancient and Modern’, ‘Old and New’, which will be appearing. Many of you will be familiar with the procedure – just go to our website :

www.hymnsocietygbi.org.uk

to ‘tune in’, it is also accessible on Facebook. As usual, all the submissions are fully scripted, beginning with the text of the hymn, followed by the Reflection and concluding with a short Prayer. Some are additionally accompanied by an audio / visual presentation and many have links to YouTube renderings of the hymn being considered. All will remain accessible until the end of August.

Hymn responding to Dr Cecilia Medupin’s Seminar for Bramhall Methodist Church Climate Change Series

Dr Cecilia Medupin
Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 
University of Manchester

Dry, cracked and crazed the water-bed lies empty, 
the earth is thirsty, rain is slow to come, 
this news is hidden, floods have filled the headlines, 
the prophets now, not heard, might well be dumb.

This is the earth the ground of life, our being, 
our home to share, to nurture and protect, 
a gift of God for us and all God’s creatures, 
to use our knowledge, work to good effect.

As people wait, the wells of life are barren, 
how long, O God, before your people learn 
that we must live and love and work together, 
to answer needs that science can discern.

The brightest light of wisdom dims in sadness, 
if we ignore the needs of all the earth,
if selfishly we dominate creation, 
deny the love once given at our birth.

Great God, earth mother, father of creation, 
we plead and cry that you will hear each voice, 
then motivate your people, bring fresh waters, 
till earth can sing and once again rejoice!

Andrew Pratt 18/6/2021 Words © 2021 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: INTERCESSOR  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX0q8eBGE7A)

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