Today’s author is Prince of Peace member, Carol Swanson.
As I write this, it is Sunday afternoon, and I just finished listening to the worship service again (you can watch it as well by clicking the link to your right!). The liturgy, hymns, sermon—were all so powerful. Thank you so much, you who planned and led us together to ponder the scripture text and to feel and think on creation’s groaning and God’s healing and redemption of “all things.” And now I also offer another of Brian Wren’s hymn texts that also expresses this.
#134
Great Lover, calling us to share
your joy in all created things
from atom-dance to eagles’ wings,
we come and go, to praise and care.
Though sure of resurrection-grace,
we ache for all earth’s troubled lands
and hold the planet in our hands,
a fragile, unprotected place.
Your questing Spirit longs to gain
no simple fishing-ground for souls,
but as life’s story onward rolls,
a world more joyful and humane.
As midwives who assist at birth,
we give our uttermost, yet grieve
lest folly, greed or hate should leave
a spoiled, aborted, barren earth.
Self-giving Lover, since you dare
to join us in our history,
embracing all our destiny,
we’ll come and go with praise and care.
––1989 copyright Hope Publishing Company
From Piece Together Praise: A Theological Journey by Brian Wren,p 126