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Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Sing the Faith First Line: This thread I weave, this step I dance Lyrics: 1 This thread I weave, this step I dance, this stone I carve, this ball I bounce, this nail I drive, this pearl I string, this flag I wave, this note I sing, 2 this pot I shape, this fire I light, this fence I leap, this bone I knit, this seed I nurse, this rift I mend, this child I raise, this earth I tend, 3 this check I write, this march I join, this faith I state, this truth I sign, this is small part, in one small place, of one heart's beat for one great Peace. Used With Tune: POXON

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POXON

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jim Strathdee Hymnal Title: The Faith We Sing Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 51113 55556 66565 Used With Text: For One Great Peace

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For One Great Peace

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Sing the Faith #2185 (2003) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Sing the Faith First Line: This thread I weave, this step I dance Lyrics: 1 This thread I weave, this step I dance, this stone I carve, this ball I bounce, this nail I drive, this pearl I string, this flag I wave, this note I sing, 2 this pot I shape, this fire I light, this fence I leap, this bone I knit, this seed I nurse, this rift I mend, this child I raise, this earth I tend, 3 this check I write, this march I join, this faith I state, this truth I sign, this is small part, in one small place, of one heart's beat for one great Peace. Languages: English Tune Title: POXON

For One Great Peace

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: The Faith We Sing #2185 (2001) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: The Faith We Sing First Line: This thread I weave, this step I dance Lyrics: 1 This thread I weave, this step I dance, this stone I carve, this ball I bounce, this nail I drive, this pearl I string, this flag I wave, this note I sing, 2 this pot I shape, this fire I light, this fence I leap, this bone I knit, this seed I nurse, this rift I mend, this child I raise, this earth I tend, 3 this check I write, this march I join, this faith I state, this truth I sign, this is small part, in one small place, of one heart's beat for one great Peace. Topics: Grace Social Holiness Languages: English Tune Title: POXON

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Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Hymnal Title: Sing the Faith Author of "For One Great Peace" in Sing the Faith Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago