A perfect storm, as Galilee June 23rd Lectionary Mark 4 35 – 41
Hymn: A perfect storm, as Galilee
A perfect storm, as Galilee
became a foaming maelstrom,
the boats were spun and tossed like corks,
no more a sluggish doldrum.
And through it all their friend had dozed,
the chaos found him sleeping
while panic reigned, fear took control,
as crashing waves were sweeping.
A desperate cry, 'we perish, Lord',
they shook him to his senses.
Then at a word the storm was stilled
disarming their defences.
'What little faith you have, my friends,
why let such fear possess you?
See how the wind and waves obey,
how peace has come to bless you'.
What they had seen disturbed those men,
it rocked things sure and tested;
to meet with God upon that lake,
left doubt and fear arrested
Andrew Pratt
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Tune: 8.7.8.7
Metre: ST COLUMBA (Irish); DOMINUS REGIT ME
Tag: chaos
Jesus calls us to the chaos – hymn – ministry outside the camp
Jesus calls us to the chaos
that our hearts would fear to own,
places that are fraught and tortured,
only hurt and hatred known.
Jesus calls us to the desert,
wilderness of mental pain,
all perception seems distorted,
will we risk this stress and strain?
Jesus calls us out to meet him,
homeless, restless, lost alone,
all the future rung with sadness,
empty, heartless, cold as stone.
Jesus calls beyond the comfort
will the church stand still, or go?
Will we risk it, yet he beckons,
leave the safety that we know?
Andrew Pratt 21/3/2019
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Written for Peter Barber
Nothing can tear us from the love – hymn – Romans 8
Nothing can tear us from the love
that breathed creation into birth,
that nurtured, mothered what we are
and placed us on this fragile earth.
We walk through chaos, fraught with fear,
where death distils its dark demands,
as tragedy pulls curtains down
and care is shattered, no more stands.
In all this stuff that forms our lives,
each place where hope seemed flawed or veiled,
in spite of all, through shadowed times,
a shimmering shard of light prevailed.
And nothing now in all the world,
it seems, can rip me from the grace,
that grace that holds me still in love,
in this and every future place.
Andrew Pratt 21/3/2019
Tune: O WALY WALY
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Written for David Hamflett
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