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Is this the way you made the world

Author: Douglas Gay, b. 1963 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:17 Used With Tune: FIELDS OF LIGHT

Bless the Lord, O my soul

Appears in 2,063 hymnals Topics: Animals; Creation Beauty of; Creation Care; Creation God as Creator; Evening; God Works of; Harvest; Holy Spirit; Morning; Praise; Praying Gratitude; Psalms; Rural Life; Seasons; Thanksgiving Text Sources: Adapt: New Revised Standard Version Bible

Morning Has Broken

Author: Eleanor Farjeon Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 98 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation Scripture: Genesis 1:3-5 Used With Tune: BUNESSAN

Ye that obey th' immortal King

Appears in 70 hymnals Topics: Worship daily; Church the house and care of God; Creation and Providence; Grace and providence; Idolatry reproved; Isreal saved from Egypt, and brought to Canaan; Rain from heaven; Thunder and storm; Weather; Works and grace Lyrics: 1 Ye that obey th' immortal King, Attend his holy Place, Bow to the Glories of his Pow'r, And bless his wond'rous Grace. 2 Lift up your Hands by Morning-Light, And send your Souls on high; Raise your admiring Thoughts by Night Above the starry Sky. 3 The GOD of Sion chears our Hearts, With Rays of quick'ning Grace; The GOD that spread the Heav'ns abroad, And rules the swelling Seas. Scripture: Psalm 134

God in such love for us lent us this planet

Author: Frederick Pratt Green (1903-2000) Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation Lyrics: 1 God in such love for us lent us this planet, gave it a purpose in time and in space: small as a spark from the fire of creation, cradle of life and the home of our race. 2 Thanks be to God for its bounty and beauty, life that sustains us in body and mind: plenty for all, if we learn how to share it, riches undreamed-of to fathom and find. 3 Long have our human wars ruined its harvest; long has earth bowed to the terror of force; long have we wasted what others have need of, poisoned the fountain of life at its source. 4 Earth is the Lord's: it is ours to enjoy it, Ours, as God's stewards, to farm and defend. From its pollution, misuse, and destruction, good Lord, deliver us, world without end! Scripture: 1 Timothy 6:17 Used With Tune: EPIPHANY

Where are the voices for the earth?

Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation Lyrics: 1 Where are the voices for the earth? Where are the eyes to see her pain, wasted by our consuming path, weeping the tears of poisoned rain? 2 Sacred the soil that hugs the seed, sacred the silent fall of snow, sacred the world that God decreed, water and sun and river flow. 3 Where shall we run who break this code, where shall tomorrow's children be, left with the ruined gifts of God, death for the creatures, land, and sea? 4 We are the voices for the earth, we who will care enough to cry, cherish her beauty, clear her breath, live that our planet may not die. Scripture: Genesis 2:8 Used With Tune: PORTENT

All People That on Earth Do Dwell (Psalm 100)

Author: William Kethe Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 746 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation First Line: All people that on earth do dwell Lyrics: 1 All people that on earth do dwell, sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell. Come ye before him and rejoice. 2 Know that the Lord is God indeed; without our aid he did us make; we are his folk; he doth us feed, and for his sheep he doth us take. 3 O enter then his gates with praise; approach with joy his courts unto; praise, laud, and bless his name always, for it is seemly so to do. 4 For why? The Lord our God is good; his mercy is forever sure; his truth at all times firmly stood, and shall from age to age endure. Scripture: Psalm 100 Used With Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH

This is My Father's World

Author: Maltbie D. Babcock Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 341 hymnals Topics: God Beyond All Name and Form God the Creator; Care of the Earth; Creation; God; God: Creator; Nature Lyrics: 1 This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears all nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres. This is my Father's world: I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees, of skies and seas God's hands the wonders wrought. 2 This is my Father's world: the birds their carols raise; the morning light, the flowers bright, declare their Maker's praise. Our God has made this world and shines in all that's fair; in the rustling grass I hear God pass, who speaks to me everywhere. 3 Our God has made this world: oh, let us ne'er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet. God trusts us with this world, to keep it clean and fair. All earth and trees, the skies and seas, God's creatures everywhere. Used With Tune: TERRA BEATA

O Lord, You Are My God and King (Psalm 145)

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 17 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation First Line: O Lord, you are my God and King Lyrics: 1 O Lord, you are my God and King, and I will ever bless your name; I will extol you every day, and evermore your praise proclaim. You, Lord, are greatly to be praised; your greatness is beyond our thought; all generations shall tell forth the mighty wonders you have wrought. 2 How rich in grace are you, O Lord, full of compassion, merciful, your anger always slow to rise; your steadfast love you show to all, for you are good in all your ways; your creatures know your constant care. To all your works your love extends; all souls your tender mercies share. 3 Your works will give you thanks, O Lord; your saints your mighty acts will show, till all the peoples of the earth your kingdom, power, glory know. Eternal is your kingdom, Lord, forever strong, forever sure; while generations rise and die, your high dominion will endure. Scripture: Psalm 145 Used With Tune: JERUSALEM Text Sources: The New Metrical Version of the Psalms, 1909, alt.

Great God of every shining constellation

Author: Albert Frederick Bayly (1901-1984) Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Care of Creation Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:49 Used With Tune: HIGHWOOD