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Set Me Free (To Love)
$3.00 or moreSet Me Free (To Love)Add to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. Hear an audio excerpt in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: From all that binds me, Love, set me free. Set me free, Love, set me free. Oh Love, set me free to love. From what I fear, O Love set me free.... From what I cling to, Love, set me free... To live in perfect love, set me free.... -
Setting the Table
$0.00 or moreSetting the TableAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Be Thou My Vision. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ, you have seen us and called us with grace, and come to feast with us in our earthly place. You eat with sinners! We welcome you here, grateful for love so abounding, so clear God, you have saved us so that we may live new lives of grace; so now grateful, we give freely our treasure and gladly our hearts, with generosity that your love imparts Spirit, you bless us with infinite gifts: healing that frees us and power that uplifts. Grateful, we give you our hearts and our gold; Love, there is nothing that we would withhold God, you forgive us our fear and our greed, and free us to share with all others in need. We set this table with joy and with care, saved, blessed and grateful, and happy to share. -
Sharing the Light
$0.00 or moreSharing the LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Be Thou My Vision.. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Bridegroom, Beloved, all life is your bride. We come to celebrate here at your side. Feasting and dancing long brighten the night. Grateful we are for your love and your light. See, though, beyond our small circle of light those who are longing still, out in the night, those who though seeking have no lamp or oil: see how the bridegroom still loves them as well. God who has loved us and filled us with grace sends us in love to go out from this place, sharing our own lamps, to bless and invite, sharing our wealth, our abundance, our light. This is the true feast, the love of our Lord: sharing grace widely, for all are adored. Sharing is how we will find true delight, sharing the feast and the joy and the light. -
Shepherd of Israel
$3.00 or moreShepherd of IsraelAdd to cartOriginal song. A dialogue between soloist and congregation. Three versions: Advent (Year B), Lent General, and Lent Lectionary (one for each lectionary year). Intended to be sung through the season, one verse (Advent) or two (Lent) each week. Cantor's verses reflect lectionary texts for the week. Also copntains a Kyrie that can be used independently. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics for Advent: Congregation: Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison. Kyrie Eleison. Come to us, and grant your peace. Cantor: Week 1. Shepherd of Israel, come, restore your people. Shine your face on us and save us, God. Week 2. Comfort, speak tenderly. Gently lead your people. God, forgive our sins and make us new. Week 3. Pour out your Spirit, God, Heal the brokenhearted. Love, prepare our hearts to see your light. Week 4. Grant us your mercy, God. Fill the poor with good things. Guide our feet into your way of peace. -
Shine In Me
$0.00 or moreShine In MeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Breathe On Me, Breath of God. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Shine in me, light of God: into my shadows shine, all that is dark and hidden, show; reveal with your light divine. Open the window, Love, into my heart’s abyss: fears and desires, all wants and wounds bring into your light and bless. What is unseen reveal; give me the gift of sight, lighten the shadows deep within and, Love, make my darkness light. Shine in me, light of God, your mercy gleaming bright. I am the lantern, you the flame. Love, let me live in your light. -
Signs
$0.00 or moreSignsAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of O Little Town of Bethlehem. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: The night is long; the darkness deep; our childish dreams long gone. We lie awake with hearts that ache for warmth and light of dawn. We long to trust the promise the prophets have foretold: we look for signs of your designs for what the future holds. In our unknowing and our doubt, O Christ, you speak your Word: to stay awake and watch and wait for signs unseen, unheard. Yet in our very longing, your Spirit cries for home: for you are near, and hidden here, and yet are still to come. And so in silent stillness now we watch, and as we do your grace imparts into our hearts the gifts we seek in you. Our openness transforms us: for now your grace is clear, that we may shine and be a sign that Christ is drawing near. -
Sleeper, Awake
$3.00 or moreSleeper, AwakeAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Ephesians 5.14. May be sung once or repeated in the style of Taize. (Listen to it in the Product Description below.) -
Song of Healing
$0.00 or moreSong of HealingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Finlandia. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God of love, O God of grace unending, come heal your people, body, mind and soul: those who know grief, whom sorrow is befriending, the sick and struggling, who know sorrow’s role. Heal those whose backs beneath their loads are bending; come set them free. Come heal and make them whole. Use us, O God: complete the nations’ mending: make us your hands; show us our healing role; make us your eyes, your light in all defending; let healing flow; O, let your justice roll. Help us, O God, your Holy Spirit lending, to heal and bless, to make the dear world whole. -
Spark of Light
$0.00 or moreSpark of LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. Most effective as a solo, with congregation joining on the final chorus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: In the cold and dark of night a Spirit gives a spark of light and breathes the breath of life that flows right through ya. The Spirit births and blesses you, and holds you and caresses you, and looks at you and cries out, “Hallelujah!” Hallelujah, hallelujah... With light that glimmers in your eyes your heart sings out to harmonize with everyone —they're all related to ya. The love in us will always pull our hearts together, beautiful, and make us all a single “Hallelujah!” Hallelujah... So even in the dark of night the Spirit gives us hopeful sight. You don't think that the end is coming, do ya? We'll bear the light and sing the song and side by side we'll work along until the whole world sings God's “Hallelujah.” Hallelujah... -
Spirit Feast
$0.00 or moreSpirit FeastAdd to cartOriginal lyrics—referring to both Baptism and Communion— set to the tune of Cradle Song (an alternative tune for Away in a Manger). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: With hearts that are baptized in mercy and grace, we enter the mystery of this time and place to feast on your mercy in light from above, receiving your Spirit, made one in your love. The cup that we drink from flows deep with your love, the water of blessing, descent of the dove. “My Chosen, Beloved, in whim I am pleased,” we're sent by your Spirit to shine with your light. With blest, grateful hearts, God, we come to this feast, and pray that your Spirit in us be released. This sharing, this joy and this justice you share is ours now to bring to the word everywhere. -
Spirit of God
$3.00 or moreSpirit of GodAdd to cartOriginal song. Includes music for two-and four-part choir or songleaders and flute. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Spirit of God, bright Wind, breath that bids life begin, blow as you always do; create us anew. Give us the breath to sing, lifted on soaring wing, held in your hands, borne on your wings. Alleluia! Come, Spirit, come. Spirit of God, bright Dove, grant us your peace and love, healing upon your wings for all living things. For when we live your peace captives will find release, held in your hands, borne on your wings. Alleluia!... Spirit of God, bright Hands, even in far-off lands you hold all the human race in one warm embrace. No matter where we go you hold us together so, held in your hands, borne on your wings. Alleluia!... Spirit of God, bright Flame, send us in your holy name, with power to heal, to share your love everywhere. We cannot fail or fall or know defeat at all, held in your hands, borne on your wings. Alleluia!... Spirit of God in all, we gladly hear your call, the life in our hands that sings, the power of your wings. Born of your grace we rise, love shining in our eyes, held in your hands, borne on your wings. Alleluia!... -
Spirit Wind
$0.00 or moreSpirit WindAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What Wondrous Love Is This. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul, what wondrous love is this, O my soul! That you who made the earth with love would give us birth and by your Spirit’s breath lead us on, lead us on, and by your Spirit’s breath make us whole. Great Spirit, may the wind of your love freely blow, oh, let your wind of love freely blow, and guide us in your grace in every time and place, to bear your love and peace as we go, as we go. Oh, let the winds of love freely blow! As we are born anew from above, from above, God, send us out to serve in your love. And may we freely go wherever your winds blow, though how we do not know, in your love, in your love, wherever your winds blow, in your love.baptism,Holy Spirit -
Spring Now Blooms
$0.00 or moreSpring Now BloomsAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Now the Green Blade Rises. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Early in the morning we come to the tomb, bearing sins and sorrows,wounds and hearts of gloom. But what is this?The stone is rolled away! And the tomb is empty! Wonder and dismay! * Verse 2, Synoptic version: Then an angel greets us, speaking to our fear, saying “Christ is risen. See, he is not here.” Now our despair itself has passed away, and we feel new life rise in the dawning day. * Verse 2, John version -- So we ask the gardener where the body is— and we hear the voice and know that it is his. “Why do you weep?” Such sadness fills our eyes. Then we see and fill with joy and glad surprise. Christ now stands before us, living as he said. Oh, what hope he brings us, rising from the dead! Night was so dark, but with the rising sun everything is changed now, in this grace-filled dawn. We give God our spirits, buried just like seeds, and emerge forgiven, healed, made new and freed. Sorrow and dread are changed to joy instead. Spring now blooms, for Christ is risen from the dead! -
Steadfast Love
$0.00 or moreSteadfast LoveAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of This Is My father's World. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God of faithful love, in every time and land, the human race with tender grace you hold in gentle hands. So may we love as well, with gracious tenderness: the love you give we too will live, and thus our faith confess. To those who cause us hurt, when anger calls our name, we show the face of loving grace, for you treat us the same. O God, you know our flaws, yet you forgive and heal; and may we so, to friend and foe, your steadfast love reveal. ** Concluding blessing verse for the end of the service: Now go in peace, my friends, with God’s deep love in you, God’s gentleness, God’s will to bless in all you say and do. Go forth in Christ to serve, go forth, beloved friends, still bound in prayer and loving care until we meet again. -
Table Songs
$0.00 or moreTable SongsAdd to cartThirty-seven songs of invitation and preparation for communion, set to various familiar hymn tunes. Most are one or two verses. Includes several appropriate for various Liturgical seasons. Samples: Tune: Be Thou My Vision God, you have called us to join in your feast, one with each other, the greatest and least. Gladly we lay all our gifts at your feet, making the joy that we share here complete. Tune: Finlandia You call us, Christ, to take our cross and follow, but first you bring us here to feast with you, Our gifts we bring, to celebrate your loving, our lives we give, to die and rise anew. Feed us your grace, your Spirit of compassion, make us your Body now, your will to do. Tune: The Water Is Wide...... or Tallis’ Canon O Lord, Our God, we come to you, to die and rise, and live anew. Our hearts are weak; our souls near dead. Revive us with your wine and bread. Forgive our sin, and heal and bless: our only life your life in us. We bring our gifts, in love made one. Grant us your grace. Your will be done. -
The Church’s One Foundation
$0.00 or moreThe Church’s One FoundationAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of The Church's One Foundation (AURELIA). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: The church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ alone, the rock of our salvation, our only cornerstone. By grace we are created, by Spirit given birth, in loving bonds related, Christ’s Body here on earth. Called forth from every nation, of every tribe and race, we all are one creation, one vessel of God’s grace. Though some are treated poorly, those silenced and oppressed, we all are chosen surely, and all are surely blessed. Christ, give to us your daring inclusion of us all, embodying your sharing with those beyond our walls, to boldly act for justice for all, not just for some, that by your Holy Spirit we truly may be One. -
The Heart of Heaven
$3.00 or moreThe Heart of HeavenAdd to cartOriginal song. A song of encouragement. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: There’s a heart in heaven that knows you, and speaks your name in love from heaven’s throne, that has laughed and labored here beside you, and says, “I know your journey as my own.” There are eyes in heaven that adore you, and weep with joy at the beauty of your soul, for they see the courage of your living, and share your deepest yearnings to be whole. There’s a tear in heaven that remembers, there’s a deep, weary sigh that understands; there are gentle, wounded hands that know the struggle to do the work of God with human hands. There’s a voice from heaven within you, a spring of life-giving water flowing free. Let it flow, let grace and peace shine in you with heaven’s loveliness for all to see. Oh, the heart of heaven is within you, the universe embraces you in love, for the humble One who walks beside you is the One who rules the sun and stars above. -
The Heavens Are Telling
$0.00 or moreThe Heavens Are TellingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Havens are telling, galaxies singing, your Word compelling, “Let there be light.” All living beings shine with your glory; all we are seeing is your delight. God, your love flows in every direction, filling and blessing every dark place. Even the shadows shine with your presence, even the darkness hums with your grace. Everything moving moves by your Spirit: flight of the birds and dance of the stars, migrating whales and flow of the river; breath of the wind is breath that is ours. Bless every creature, bright with God’s glory; bless every feature, fin, fur and wing. Each is completing God’s wondrous story; each is God’s greeting; praises they sing. -
The Jesus Prayer
$3.00 or moreThe Jesus PrayerAdd to cartOriginal song. The ancient Jesus prayer, adapted. For continual repetition. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Jesus, Beloved of God, have mercy on me, for I need you. -
The River of God (Ps.65)
$3.00 or moreThe River of God (Ps.65)Add to cartOriginal song. Psalm 65. A dialogue between soloist and congregation. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Cantor: Praise is due to you, O God, our Beloved. To you alone we devote our lives. O you who answer prayer! To you all flesh shall come. Congregation (Refrain): The river of God is full of water. Praise to you, O God! By mighty deeds you deliver us. You are the hope of all people on earth. ...Refrain Morning and evening resound with joy. We are silent in awe. —Refrain You bless the earth and water it, granting the blessing of bountiful growth. ...Refrain Meadows and wilderness overflow, wearing their finest in joy. ...Refrain When the depth of our sin overwhelms us, you forgive all our transgressions. How blessed we are, O God, that you hold us near your heart. ...Refrain -
The Table of Your Grace
$0.00 or moreThe Table of Your GraceAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Make Me a Channel of Your Peace. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: This is the table of your grace. We set it with the gifts that you have given. You call us, one and all, to share your grace, that in this meal we know your love. You grant your presence in this meal. Your blood and body, given for our sake., your humble, suff’ring service and your love, that we may be your Body now. The bread you give is not for us alone; the cup is meant for us to take and share. So you send us out, to a hungry world. We rely on your grace to bear us on. You send us in the Spirit’s power. You give us strength to take the journey on, to go and serve and heal and to proclaim this Realm of Love in Jesus’ name. -
The Tree of Life
$0.00 or moreThe Tree of LifeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of The Water Is Wide or O Love, How Deep. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God, you plant deep in each soul the tree of life that makes us whole, whose leaves can heal and set us free, whose fruit will feed abundantly. The seed is small; the tree is great. We cannot know what gifts await. We only tend our plot with care, in loving deed and listening prayer. Teach me to trust, my soil to till, to plant and water, and be still. The seed will swell, and crack and grow, though how this is I cannot know. And I will die, and I will rise, each day a birth, a new surprise. And you will give life to the tree, and I behold your mystery. -
This Is Our Mother’s World
$0.00 or moreThis Is Our Mother’s WorldAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of ThIs My father's World. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As a mother in her love surrounds her own with care, God gives us birth and life and earth and grace beyond compare. This is our Mother’s world; her grace is everywhere, each person blest, held to her breast, enfolded in her care. As a mother, wise and kind, leads children day by day, God holds us near so we can hear the voice that guides our way. This is our Mother’s world, and so our gifts we bring, to freely share her loving care, and praises gladly sing. One-verse Offertory version: As a mother in her love surrounds her own with care, God gives us birth and life and earth and grace beyond compare. This is our Mother’s world, and so our gifts we bring, to freely share her loving care, and praises gladly sing. -
This Is the Passover
$3.00 or moreThis Is the PassoverAdd to cartOriginal song. Based on Luke 22.15. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: This is the Passover you have desired to share as you deliver us out of our slavery and fear. This is the new living Covenant, sealed in your blood. Grant that it may be fulfilled in the Kin-dom of God. Stripped in our suffering of all but our need for your grace, join us to you in your dying and rising, O Christ. This is our passing from death into life, one with you. Grant us your Spirit, united, set free and made new. -
This Sanctuary
$0.00 or moreThis SanctuaryAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Joyful, Joyful. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, creator of the heavens, earth and everything that lives, this world is your home, and shines with glory that your presence gives. Christ, your living sanctuary, Christ in whom you live in love, is for us our healing shelter and our home with you above. Hands have built this sanctuary, made it beautiful and new, but it is our hearts that raise it up, a loving gift to you. May this place give sacred shelter, welcome all who seek your face, heal and strengthen hearts for service, be the home of light and grace. Send us from this sanctuary out into the world you bless; let this be the center of a growing ring of love and grace. Let this be the nest from which your Holy Spirit takes its flight. Make us all your sanctuary, bearing to the world your light. -
Three Strangers
$0.00 or moreThree StrangersAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of I Come with Joy (DOVE OF PEACE). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Three strangers came to Abraham and Sarah in their age, and told them God had plans for them, a promise to engage, a promise to engage. So Sarah laughed and Abraham, he knit his furrowed brow: “How could this come to us?” he said, “How could this happen now? How could this happen now?” So God appears and promises new life for us as well, and gives us joy so that we laugh. Such happy news to tell! Such happy news to tell! God promises new life in us, and love and joy to bear, and gives us gifts and blessings dear, the grace of God to share, the grace of God to share. -
Tree of Life (Advent)
$3.00 or moreTree of Life (Advent)Add to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Dialogue between soloist and congregation. Two verses a week through Advent following Lectionary texts for Year C. (Hear an audio sample in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: Week 1 Look to the leaves of the fig tree: when they bud, you know summer is near. So take heart, the Beloved is coming, healing our sin and our fear. Tree of life in winter, stir our hearts with cheer. The healing of the nations comes. The one who is coming, coming, is near. Like a tree in the dead of winter whose life is a secret within, God's hidden grace will appear to save us from death and sin. -
Unfolding Light – Poems
$26.00Unfolding Light – PoemsAdd to cartUnfolding Light - Poems is a collection of 184 poems gathered from 45 years of writing. They are part of my practice of wonder. They include reflections on daily life, scripture passages, walking in the woods, contemplative prayer, the natural world, dogs, bees, and driving across Montana with a peach. They’re rooted in my observation that the world is a thin place, filled with mystery, the divine presence, tears of every kind, and abundant blessing. -
Unfolding Light – Poems (Signed or Inscribed)
$30.00Unfolding Light – Poems (Signed or Inscribed)Add to cartUnfolding Light - Poems is a collection of 184 poems gathered from 45 years of writing. They are part of my practice of wonder. They include reflections on daily life, scripture passages, walking in the woods, contemplative prayer, the natural world, dogs, bees, and driving across Montana with a peach. They’re rooted in my observation that the world is a thin place, filled with mystery, the divine presence, tears of every kind, and abundant blessing.This is a version of Unfolding Light - Poems that will be signed by the author, Steve Garnaas-Holmes. If you have a request for the signature to be dedicated to anyone or anything in particular, please include a note in the "Order notes (optional)" section of the checkout page. -
Vine and Branches
$3.00 or moreVine and BranchesAdd to cartOriginal song. Final verse, "Alleluia," may be suing as a round. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: You are the vine and we are your branches, one with your life and rooted in your heart. Flowing with grace, with life you fill us, strengthened that nothing can break us apart. You are the vine and we are your branches. Deep in our hearts your life is flowing through. Rooted in you, we grow and flourish. You live within us, and we live in you. You are the vine and we are your branches. One common blood flows though all of our veins. We all are part of one another. We all are branches of one living vine. You are the vine and we are your branches, flowing with power greater than our own, bearing your fruit to all Creation, till all the seeds of your love have been sown. Alleluia. -
Wake Us From Our Sleep
$0.00 or moreWake Us From Our SleepAdd to cartOriginal song. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: God of mercy, wake us with your light. Rouse our sleeping hearts and give us sight. Raise us up from death; fill us with your breath. Wake us from our sleep to live new lives in you. Life comes only from the Word you give. You alone have power to make us live. Seeking what is True, Love, we turn to you: springs of living water flow, and so we live. Christ, you touch our hearts and heal our fear. Even in our pain your grace is near. Spirit, you who save, raise us from our grave. Born again, dry bones who rise, we live in you. Christ, light of the world, your radiance bright wakens us to day out of our night: shining in, it heals; shining out, reveals. Help us all to live as children of the light. -
Washed In Your Waters
$0.00 or moreWashed In Your WatersAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Washed in your waters, baptized with Jesus, your sons and daughters, risen anew, each day we live, God, we drink your blessings. Our lives we give, then, gladly to you. Not our deserving, but your indwelling blessing us, serving, will be our guide. Source of our living, Word of your Presence, Spirit of giving, stay by our side. Filled with your Spirit, one in your Body, Christ, we inherit mercy and light. Guide and defend us, and daily send us into the world to share your delight. Spirit who frees us, give us your courage, to walk with Jesus all of our days, blessing and healing, justice revealing, till all the world sings in thanks and praise. -
We Feast on Your Love
$3.00 or moreWe Feast on Your LoveAdd to cartOriginal song. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Chorus: We drink from your presence. We feast on your love. This is the banquet we've been dreaming of. (Repeat.) You gather us: no one's unworthy, and no one is "greatest" or "least." You multiply what we offer, so multitudes may feast. — Chorus We hunger and thirst for your spirit, we open ourselves to your grace. In flows the mercy you offer in every time and place. — Chorus We taste the sweet wine made from water, our bread is your body you give. "Drink of the water I give you, so you may truly live." — Chorus -
We Lift Our Spirits Up
$0.00 or moreWe Lift Our Spirits UpAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of SURSUM CORDA, ... or Abide with Me... or Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We lift our spirits up to you, O God, O Love, our morning sun, our living breath. You are our first and final dwelling, God: receive our prayers, receive our life and death. Our grateful thanks we give you for your care that bears us through the challenges we face, for nothing we desire can compare with your compassion and your healing grace. O God, we open wide our longing soul: breathe into us your mercy and delight. We give to you all that we would control, make us pure vessels of your love and light. -
We Take This Moment
$0.00 or moreWe Take This MomentAdd to cartOriginal lyrics, based on Luke 24.30-31 and other passages where "Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it," set to the tune of The Gift of Love / The Water Is Wide. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We take this moment, Christ, with you: for crucified and raised anew you walk with us in all our pain. Our hearts cry out for you again. We bless this moment: it is dear, for, hidden, you are with us here. Our hearts reach out to touch your hand, though we don’t always understand. We break this moment open wide and find your presence at our side. Your warm light rises from within; new life is waiting to begin. We give this moment, God, to you: that in our living you shine through, that we may wonder, serve and bless, that you may rise, O Christ, in us. -
We Welcome the Child
$3.00 or moreWe Welcome the ChildAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Hear an audio clip in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: We welcome the child among us. We welcome the tender ones. In our embrace we meet your grace, your gentle love divine. Welcome to those who are fragile, a safe healing place to belong, a shelter from harm, a comforting arm, a refuge where you may grow strong. Welcome the child within us, the small, timid voice in the night, her wonder and fear at the world so near, the child of your love and delight. God, you are a child among us, no power or might or control. By your gentle part you soften my heart and make me a more loving soul. -
When Darkness and Unknowing
$0.00 or moreWhen Darkness and UnknowingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of O Sacred Head Now Wounded. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: When darkness and unknowing weigh down our hearts with fear, oh, loving gentle Jesus, you draw your dear ones near. You feed us with yourself, Love, and dwelling in our soul you lead us by your light, though we cannot see the goal. When evil and oppression make threat to bend your will, you gather your beloved in peace, and gentle still. You feed us with compassion: your very life you give, so gentleness will also become the way we live. Despite our fear and violence, the gentleness you’ve shown, your mercy in the darkness, becomes our hope alone. You feed us with your love now, and ban the evil powers, and give us your compassion, so your peace may be ours. -
When Fear Lives Close
$0.00 or moreWhen Fear Lives CloseAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Tallis' Canon or Gift of Love. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We pray for those who live in fear, where secret hurt and shame live near, that they may know your loving grace, and find their way to freedom’s space. And God of love, we pray for those whose inner darkness overflows, that those who wound, control or use may be healed, too, their demons lose. We pray, O God, that we may be your gentle ones who set them free, with deep respect, with love and prayer, create a world of gentle care. -
When Jesus Was Baptized
$3.00 or moreWhen Jesus Was BaptizedAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of "Cradle Song." (Hear an audio sample in the product description.) Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: When Jesus was baptized John said to repent, and follow the Righteous One whom God had sent. So wash us, dear God, and create us anew, born fresh from your Word and living wholly in you. When Jesus was baptized in waters that flow he sank in the Source of what makes all things grow. So, held in Creation, renewed and made one, we swim in the grace of your life-giving Son. When Jesus was baptized in light, like a dove your Spirit came down and you filled him with love. So give us your Spirit; let all that we do be you living in us as we live in you. When Jesus was baptized you spoke from above, saying “This is my servant, my son whom I love.” So help us to hear you speak love when you call, and as your Beloved, share freely with all. -
Winter Bird
$3.00 or moreWinter BirdAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
For solo or congregational singing, accompanied by piano or bell choir.
Hear an audio clip in the Product Description below. Lyrics: One winter night the woods were bare and cold as cold could be. A bird, while singing, wove a nest up in a barren tree. “Dear bird, “I said, “you have no young, and soon the snow will fall. Why do you build this winter nest, so fragile and so small?” “There is a gentle child,” she said, “whose coming is foretold: he comes from God to warm our wintry hearts when they're cold. My nest is small but it is all I can provide a guest. If he should come this way I pray he finds a little rest.” Now the woods are still, the bird is gone, the nest has filled with snow. But still the dear bird warms my heart, as she did long ago. O holy child, I long for such a loving guest as thee. Like her, I offer you my heart to make your nest in me.