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All things bright and beautiful

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #533b (2013) Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Topics: Creation and the Environment First Line: Each little flower that opens Lyrics: Refrain: All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all. 1 Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, he made their glowing colours, he made their tiny wings: [Refrain] 2 The purple-headed mountain, the river running by, the sunset, and the morning that brightens up the sky: [Refrain] 3 The cold wind in the winter, the pleasant summer sun, the ripe fruits in the garden, he made them every one: [Refrain] 4 The tall trees in the greenwood, the meadows where we play, the rushes by the water we gather every day: [Refrain] s He gave us eyes to see them, and lips that we might tell how great is God almighty, who has made all things well: [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL

Lord, bring the day to pass

Author: Ian Masson Fraser (b. 1917) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #543 (2013) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Topics: Creation and the Environment Lyrics: 1 Lord, bring the day to pass when forest, rock and hill, the beasts, the birds, the grass, will know your finished will: when we attain our destiny and nature lives in harmony. 2 Forgive our careless use of water, ore and soil — the plenty we abuse supplied by others' toil: save us from making self our creed, turn us towards each other's need. 3 Give us, when we release creation's secret powers, to harness them for peace — our children's peace and ours: teach us the art of mastering in servant form, which draws death's sting. 4 Creation groans, travails, futile its present plight, bound — till the hour it hails God's children born of light who enter on their true estate. Come, Lord: new heavens and earth create. Scripture: Romans 8:21-22 Languages: English Tune Title: LAWES'S PSALM 47

Morning glory, starlit sky

Author: William Hubert Vanstone (1923-1999) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #544a (2013) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: Creation and the Environment Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11 Languages: English Tune Title: EMMA

Morning glory, starlit sky

Author: William Hubert Vanstone (1923-1999) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #544b (2013) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Topics: Creation and the Environment Scripture: Philippians 2:5-11 Languages: English Tune Title: SONG 13

Touch the earth lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #553a (2013) Meter: 5.5.10 D Topics: Creation and the Environment Lyrics: 1 Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently, nourish the life of the world in our care: gift of great wonder, ours to surrender, trust for the children tomorrow will bear. 2 We who endanger, who create hunger, agents of death for all creatures that live, we who would foster clouds of disaster — God of our planet, forestall and forgive! 3 Let there be greening, birth from the burning, water that blesses and air that is sweet, health in God's garden, hope in God's children, regeneration that peace will complete. 4 God of all living, God of all loving, God of the seedling, the snow and the sun, teach us, deflect us, Christ reconnect us, using us gently, and making us one. Scripture: Genesis 2:15 Languages: English Tune Title: TENDERNESS

Touch the earth lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #553b (2013) Topics: Creation and the Environment Lyrics: 1 Touch the earth lightly, use the earth gently, nourish the life of the world in our care: gift of great wonder, ours to surrender, trust for the children tomorrow will bear. 2 We who endanger, who create hunger, agents of death for all creatures that live, we who would foster clouds of disaster — God of our planet, forestall and forgive! 3 Let there be greening, birth from the burning, water that blesses and air that is sweet, health in God's garden, hope in God's children, regeneration that peace will complete. 4 God of all living, God of all loving, God of the seedling, the snow and the sun, teach us, deflect us, Christ reconnect us, using us gently, and making us one. Scripture: Genesis 2:15 Languages: English Tune Title: [Touch the earth lightly]

Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm (1866-1960) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #650 (2013) Meter: 11.10.11.10 with refrain Topics: Creation and the Environment First Line: Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father Lyrics: 1 Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father, there is no shadow of turning with thee; thou changest not, thy compassions they fail not, as thou hast been thou for ever wilt be. Refrain: Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed thy hand hath provided, great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me. 2 Summer and winter, and spring-time and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness to thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. [Refrain] 3 Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! [Refrain] Scripture: Genesis 8:22 Languages: English Tune Title: FAITHFULNESS