Moravian Book of Worship ‎#687

687. God, Teach Us Peacemaking

1 God, teach us peacemaking, justice and love.
Blessed by Christ's teaching, we're lifted above
all thought of vengeance or envy or hate.
Help us, your children, shalom to create.

2 God, teach us peacemaking in church and home,
in school and all beneath Capitol dome,
in shop and industry, city and farm -
show us the pathways that cause on one harm.

3 God, teach us peacemaking in ev'ry role.
In each relationship make peace our goal.
Yet give us insight that keeps us aware
justice and mercy in balance to share.

4 God, teach us peacemaking unto the end -
parent or child, or as stranger or friend -
fill all our hearts with the pow'r of shalom,
living together, the whole world our home.

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Text Information

• First Line: God, teach us peacemaking
• Title: God, Teach Us Peacemaking
• Author: Jane Parker Huber (1980)
• Meter: 10.10.10.10.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1995
• Scripture:
  James 3:13-18
• Topic: Peace and Justice; Community, nation and world; Discipleship; Family Life; Justice; Peace--Of the world; Peace, inner
• Copyright: © 1980 by Jane Parker Huber, from A Singing Faith Used by permission of Westminster John Knox Press.
• ONE LICENSE: 122371

Tune Information

• Name: SLANE
• Harmonizer: David Evans, 1874-1948
• Meter: 10.10.10.10.
• Key: E♭ Major
• Source: Traditional Irish melody.; From the Revised Church Hymnary (1927)
• Copyright: Used by permission of Oxford University Press