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Touch the Earth Lightly
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 5.5.10 D Appears in 23 hymnals
Touch the Earth Lightly
Sacred the Body
Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 5.5.10 D Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation; Creation; Incarnation; Love for Others; Providence Scripture: Romans 12:1 Used With Tune: TENDERNESS
Sacred the Body
TENDERNESS
Meter: 5.5.10 D Appears in 19 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Colin Gibson Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 12325 17673 65451 Used With Text: Sacred the Body
TENDERNESS
Touch the Earth Lightly
Author: Shirley Erana Murray, 1931- Hymnal: Hymns of Promise #24 (2015) Meter: 5.5.10 D 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. Topics: Praise to God Languages: English; Latin Tune Title: TENDERNESS
Touch the Earth Lightly
Sacred the Body
Author: Ruth Duck Hymnal: Glory to God #27 (2013) Meter: 5.5.10 D Topics: Care of Creation; Creation; Incarnation; Love for Others; Providence Scripture: Romans 12:1 Languages: English Tune Title: TENDERNESS
Sacred the Body
Touch the Earth Lightly
Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Hymnal: Worship and Rejoice #38 (2003) Meter: 5.5.10 D 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: Psalm 8:5-8 Languages: English Tune Title: TENDERNESS
Touch the Earth Lightly
Carl P. Daw Jr.
b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 5.5.10 D Author of "God of the Future" in Community of Christ Sings Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Emily Brink
Carl P. Daw Jr.
Shirley Erena Murray
1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 5.5.10 D Author of "Touch the Earth Lightly" in Worship and Rejoice 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
Shirley Erena Murray
Ruth C. Duck
b. 1947 Person Name: Ruth Duck Meter: 5.5.10 D Author of "Sacred the Body" in Glory to God
Ruth C. Duck
