The earth pleads for justice, the harvest is wanting The earth pleads for justice, the harvest is wanting, in fire, flood or tempest our crops are destroyed; the Spring, once predicted, is desolate, silent, excuses are hollow, we’ve done all we can? The mountains have echoed, or is that God’s whisper, the quiet consternation of one in distress? A prompting, a question that answers our calling, is that your defence, that you’ve done all you can? While continents crumble and ice caps are melting, you sit on your hands, you do nothing at all. Wake up to the danger still growing around you, and do all you can till your passage is through. And now in the present let’s work for the future, still others will follow, they wait in the wings: this planet, its future, its people our neighbours, join hands, sing our anthem: ‘we’ll do All We Can!’ Andrew Pratt 13/9/2021 Written at the request of Margaret Parker for Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church to celebrate All We Can (Methodist Relief and Development) 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: 12.11.12.11 Tune: STREETS OF LAREDO/THE BARD OF ARMAGH (Ancient and Modern 551 - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPxNjLRhEM ); ST CATHERINE’S COURT (Hymns & Psalms 660 - Hymnary - https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/205294 )
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How a hymn was written – A Song of the Sea – Hymn of the Day – Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland
‘A Song of the Sea’ was published recently on this blog. It is the Hymn of the Day today 30th July 2021. The reflection on it tells how it was written and there is a link to it being sung – click here to follow to the reflection
Hymn responding to Dr Admos Chimhowu’s Seminar for Bramhall Methodist Church’s Climate Change Series
Dr Admos Chimhowu Global Development Unit, The University of Manchester Developing policy for sustainable development Just imagine death and illness, overtaking life and health, poverty of moral action favouring our human wealth. Politicians take decisions, what is their priority: Love of neighbour? Economics? What does Christ expect of me? Every person on this planet, worthy of the dignity, dignity of healthy living, heir to our prosperity, needs the food to answer hunger, pure, fresh water for her thirst; but injustice threads through choices hoards the best, then trades the worst. Conflict, climate, infestation, ruined crops, polluted streams; sign the time for human action: not just words or empty dreams. Faith and politics together, people of each race and clime, we must join in one endeavour: save this earth while there’s still time! Andrew Pratt 23/6/2021 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: 8.7.8.7 D Tune: BETHANY (Smart); LUX EOI More information click here
Hymn responding to Ms Steph Bryant’s Seminar for Bramhall Methodist Church Climate Change Series
Ms Steph Bryant Youth and Schools Programme Co-Director, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Our view of the stars fosters wonder, through grandeur: the sense of a cosmos within God’s embrace; from infinite chaos we’ve grown on this planet to learn, live and care, an inquisitive race. We thrive as God nurtures our fragile existence, our life is related to all life on earth, and each generation must deepen in knowledge, yet guard against arrogance in our own worth. God give us compassion to live with our neighbours, to value each species, conserve, and renew; to challenge those actions that lead to destruction, to cherish and never take more than our due. And these are the gifts we must share with our children, compassionate love and a God-given grace, this love with no limits pervades all creation from oceans and forests to infinite space. Andrew Pratt 14/6/2021 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: 12.11.12.11 Tune: STREETS OF LAREDO More information click here
Hymns responding to Dr Tim Gordon’s Seminar for Bramhall Methodist Church Climate Change Series
Dr Tim Gordon Marine Biologist, Exeter University Pre-meeting text Like concrete, coral crumbles, devoid of life and breath, and lifeless it will signal our finiteness and death, until with all creation we find our common place and treasure this our planet and see, in life, God’s face. The reef can be a model: a commonwealth of care, of close cooperation of all that’s living there: yet human beings meddle, bring damage and distress. We need to learn and listen if life is to progress. A deeper understanding that science can provide could bring the restoration our actions have denied; while prayer can open senses to things that are obscure, God’s spirit offers insight to make the world secure. Andrew Pratt 23/5/2021 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: 7.6.7.6.D Tune: LLANGLOFFAN; AURELIA Hymn responding to Dr Tim Gordon Marine Biologist, Exeter University The song of the sea, once melodious is dying, that song is essential, the calling of home; Great God, we lament, yet the sound of our crying is quieter than breakers, the wash of the foam. What work must we do to restore what is broken, how can we encourage the choir of the sea? The spirit is moving, the waters are wounded, the oceans are anguished for life to be free. You enter our suffering and love in our grieving, you join us in weakness, when frailty is near, God hold us, enfold us when hell overcomes us, stand near to the tomb of our folly and fear. You promise a covenant, both gift and promise. Creation is groaning, still coming to birth. Bring newness, renewal, a hope that is living, from suff’ring bring joy for the whole of the earth. We treasure the symphony, yet we are grieving, we long for the chorus, the song of the sea, bring light in the darkness and sound in the silence, Great God, co-creator let all life be free. Andrew Pratt 24/5/2021 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: 12.11.12.11 Tune: STREETS OF LAREDO YouTube - Sung and played by Gareth Moore
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