A hymn in anticipation of Advent - The crash of constellations
1 The crash of constellations, where prejudice divides, where love is torn and broken, where hatred still resides, is where we meet as equals and share what God has given, diversity in concord, a foretaste of God's heaven.
2 This is the time for praying, yet prayer is not the end, for reconciliation needs grace that God will send. And in that grace our vision, our eyes are opened wide, to see Christ in the other, and then we must decide:
3 Is love of God yet greater than human words and creeds? Is love of neighbour furnished by human loving deeds? And can we live together or must we be apart, because of human diff'rence though we are one in heart?
4 God give us grace to fathom the riches of your care, and then the strength to shoulder the ministry we bear; that working with each other acknowledging the worth of love we share together we'll spread your peace on earth.
Human in harmony? Yet we have broken peace with our anger, best left unspoken.
God, help us share as one in humanity Cool us, calm us centre our sanity.
One earth: our cradle of nature and nurture.
Sharing one goal, each neighbour, each searcher:
home of existence destroyed at our peril: Crisis? Destruction? Goodness or evil?
God, give us the courage to love one another, sister and mother, father and brother; now hold us in anguish and catch those who fall, Ground of our being and parent of all.
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