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Where Two or Three Are Gathered

Author: Bruce Harding Appears in 1 hymnal Topics: Discernment First Line: Where two or three are gathered in my name Scripture: Matthew 18:20 Used With Tune: [Where two or three are gathered in my name]

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

When We Are Tested

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Discernment First Line: When we are tested and wrestle alone Lyrics: 1 When we are tested and wrestle alone, famished for bread when the world offers stone, nourish us, God, by your word and your way, food that sustains us by night and by day. 2 When in the desert we cry for relief, pleading for paths marked by certain belief, lift us to love you beyond sign and test, trusting your presence, our only true rest. 3 When we are tempted to barter our souls, trading the truth for the pow'r to control, teach us to worship and praise only you, seeking your will in the work that we do. 4 When we have struggled and searched through the night, sorting and sifting the wrong from the right, Saviour, surround us with circles of care, angels of healing, of hope, and of prayer. Scripture: Matthew 7:9 Used With Tune: WHEN WE ARE TESTED

I Sought the Lord

Meter: 10.10.10.6 with refrain Appears in 90 hymnals Topics: Discernment First Line: I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew Lyrics: 1 I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew he moved my soul to seek him, seeking me; It was not I that found, O Savior true; no, I was found of thee. 2 Thou didst reach forth thy hand and mine enfold; I walked and sank not on the storm-vexed sea; 'twas not so much that I on thee took hold, as thou, dear Lord, on me. 3 I find, I walk, I love; but, oh, the whole of love is but my answer, Lord, to thee! For thou wert long beforehand with my soul; always, always thou didst love me. Scripture: John 15:16 Used With Tune: PEACE Text Sources: Holy Songs, Carols, and Sacred Ballacs, 1880; Rev.: The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904

Holy Presence, Holy Teacher

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Discernment Lyrics: 1 Holy Presence, Holy Teacher, Light illumining our lives, in the compass of your wisdom all our work and worship thrives: lead us when we sense your calling till we find our chosen field, following your hand’s direction, honoring your truth revealed. 2 By our nurture, by our culture every life is shaped to grow, fed by long tradition’s learning, formed by mentors as we go; tune our ears to hear the gospel questioning accepted thought, ready to respect each other, see the gifts that each has brought. 3 Yours the world of pow’r and beauty, ours the task to tend its needs, day by day in cheerful service growing faith like mustard seeds, striving in unlikely places, standing where indeed we must, acting from compelling conscience, working for what’s fair and just. 4 God, we pray for understanding in our study, in our goals, concepts that will change and challenge, vision to inspire our souls, that this place for mind’s reflection, faith examined, word addressed, be a witness to your teaching, and our faithful search be blessed. Used With Tune: PLEADING SAVIOR

God, the Source of Light and Beauty

Author: S. Ralph Harlow, 1885-1972 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 4 hymnals Topics: Discernment Lyrics: 1 God, the source of light and beauty, grant response in sense and sight; stir our minds to follow duty; rouse our souls from earth-born night; give us through our clouded vision clearer knowledge of thy will till thine undefeated purpose through our lives thou shalt fulfill. 2 Great Musician of the thunder, Builder of the mountain range, Painter of the sunset's splendor, Planner of the season's change, help us fill our lives with beauty; still the roar of guns and strife; build thy kingdom of the future here within our daily life. 3 Author of creation's being, thou hast shared our pain and loss; through Christ's gallant life of service shines the radiance of the cross. God, the source of light and beauty, faith assures thy reign above. Here on earth we need thy presence; teach us how to walk in love. Scripture: Colossians 1:15-20 Used With Tune: IN BABILONE