Tag: newness

Oh where is there love in a world that is tired, 
across the year's threshold, where hope has expired?
We wait amid movement, to pause and to pray, 
to nurture our God at the dawn of each day.

Our eyes have been opened, compassion unlocked, 
the road has been cleared, and the future unblocked. 
The narrative moment has fractured the storm, 
the chill of the moment unfrozen, now warm.

Such newness is waiting with every new day, 
the new year is dawning through danger and play. 
The dance is still twisting through hate into light, 
is spinning and turning creating new light.

We hold in our neighbour the broken and hurt, 
those lost within living, God would not desert.  
The frail and the fallen, the fraught or the free 
are reaching for Jesus, will Christ be in me?

© Andrew Pratt  Words © 2011 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 11 11 11
DATCHET; CRADLE SONG (Kirkpatrick)