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God Is Calling

Author: Mary Louise Bringle, 1953- Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Discernment First Line: God is calling through the whisper Scripture: 1 Samuel 3:2-11 Used With Tune: W ZLOBIE LEZY

Come, Let Us Dwell

Author: William Livingstone Wallace, 1933- Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Discernment First Line: Come, let us dwell in that place of great wonder Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:17 Used With Tune: MORNING STAR

O Lord, Hear My Prayer

Author: Taizé Community Appears in 50 hymnals Topics: Discernment Scripture: 1 Kings 8:28 Used With Tune: [O Lord, hear my prayer]

Wise Men Came Journeying

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Discernment First Line: Wise men came journeying, once, long ago Lyrics: 1 Wise men came journeying, once, long ago, camel hooves swirling the sand dune and snow, gold in the saddlebag, myrrh in the jar, incense to honor the Child of the star. 2 Wise are the travelers led to move on following signs where the Christ light has shone, facing the deserts and crossing the lines, heeding no limits that culture defines. 3 Wise are each one of us looking for change, stargazer people, respecting the strange, inner and outer worlds open to light, centered on seeing the real and the right. 4 Wise ones keep journeying all through their days, bringing their gifts to the source of their praise, risking the promise with all they hold dear, seeking God's peace at the door of the year. Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Used With Tune: BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL

Christ's Word to Us

Author: Jane Parker Huber, 1926-2008 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Discernment First Line: Christ's word to us is like a burning fire Scripture: Luke 24:30-35 Used With Tune: WOODLANDS

In Nature's Voice We Hear You, Lord

Author: Mildred Jordan, 1918-2008 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Discernment Scripture: Romans 14:9-368 Used With Tune: MENDON

Christ, within Us Hidden

Author: S. Curtis Tufts Meter: 6.5.6.5 Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Discernment Scripture: Matthew 23:34-39 Used With Tune: ALEXANDER

Come and Find the Quiet Center

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Discernment Lyrics: 1 Come and find the quiet center in the crowded life we lead, find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes that we can see all the things that really matter, be at peace, and simply be. 2 Silence is a friend who claims us, cools the heat and slows the pace, God it is who speaks and names us, knows our being, touches base, making space within our thinking, lifting shades to show the sun, raising courage when we're shrinking, finding scope for faith begun. 3 In the Spirit let us travel, open to each other's pain, let our loves and fears unravel, celebrate the space we gain: there's a place for deepest dreaming, there's a time for heart to care, in the Spirit's lively scheming there is always room to spare! Scripture: Ephesians 1:17-19 Used With Tune: DAMAI

Golden Breaks the Dawn

Author: Tzu-chen Chao, 1888-1979; Frank W. Price, 1885-1974 Meter: 5.5.5.5 D Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Discernment Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13 Used With Tune: LE P'ING

How Shall We Find You

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Discernment First Line: How shall we find you Lyrics: 1 How shall we find you, God who is Holy, captured by gender, color, and code? How shall we worship, God of the Presence, action and essence, meaning and mode? 2 How shall we know you, God who is Wisdom, argued by scholars, proofed on a page: how to imagine, God of Creation, worlds beyond thinking, here on our stage? 3 How shall we trust you, God in the scriptures, filtered through lenses, biased and blurred: how to revere you, God of Tradition, cased in our churches, Word bound to word? 4 How shall we see you if not in people knit to your nature, focused in sight— angels and artists, teachers and healers, heart-and-soul people, children of light. 5 How shall we love you if not as human, loving us wholly, fleshed on our frame, known to our hunger, known in the meeting spirit to Spirit, naming our name. Scripture: Psalm 27:7-9 Used With Tune: EVENING HYMN