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A Safe, Healing Place
$0.00 or moreA Safe, Healing PlaceAdd 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: God of all living, we truly are blessed: you are our home and our soul’s gentle nest. Even the swallows shall find in your arms safety and beauty and rest from all harm. As you have welcomed us into this space, help us find others who long for your grace, those who seek shelter and all those who roam. Make of our living a warm, welcome home You have forgiven and blessed us today, healed us and raised us to go on our way: send us in courage with trust in your grace, to make of this world a safe, healing place. -
Family
$0.00 or moreFamilyAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Children of the Heavenly Father. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Children of one loving Mother, we are each a sister, brother. In your image, God, you mold us; in one family, Love, you hold us. Though we strive with one another, hurt our sister or our brother, in our struggles and our wronging still is blessing and belonging. We are not alone, but rather, God, you grant us grace together. May we learn to love the Other as our sister-self or brother. As one family, God, you gather all your children here together. Help us shed all walls and labels: bring us home, Love, to your table. -
For Households
$0.00 or moreFor HouseholdsAdd to cartA song about domestic violence. Original lyrics set to the tune of Blest Be the Tie that Binds. (Download includes a version set to DETROIT, Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: For homes where love is shared we give you thanks, O Lord, where all your children hear your grace and know they are adored. We pray for homes where fear and hurt and loneliness stay. For those abused, unsure, not free, your blessing, God, we pray. As when from Egypt slaves escaped and crossed the Sea, God, make a way and go with those who are becoming free. God, give us hearts to speak, to break the silent shield that covers the hurt, protecting the sin: so violence may be healed. God help your church to be a home, a healing place, where all are free and whole and blest and honored in your grace. -
Make Us Merciful
$0.00 or moreMake Us MercifulAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Merciful parent, God, prodigal with grace and love, welcoming children through your pain, gently receive us all, break down our shame’s dark wall, that we may never leave again. Gentle and gracious God, you who love your children, you take us in though we turn away. Fold us in your embrace; fill us with peace and grace, that we may live your gentle way. God, give us spacious hearts, generous and kind and wide, no matter what hurtful things folks do. Help us to love and bless, steadfast in gentleness. Lord, make us merciful as you. -
O Faithful God
$0.00 or moreO Faithful GodAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: Finlandia
Lyrics: O faithful God, whose steadfast love is sure, O Loving Father, Mother kind and strong: your Covenant forever will endure; you bind us to your heart our whole life long. No matter how rebellious is your child, in you we are brought home and reconciled
You hold us, God, in kinship with each other. We have been loved and held when we would run. We all are siblings, all born of one Mother; though we would flee, you join us all as one. Our deepest wounds come from our deepest love, and so our highest hope for life above.
So teach us God, to bravely love each other, for all belong within your house of grace, to give our enemy, who is our brother, our steadfast mercy, and a wide embrace; for in our love, though we be right or wrong, we know the grace to which we all belong. -
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. -
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 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.