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Meter: 5.5.10 D Appears in 19 hymnals Matching Instances: 19 Composer and/or Arranger: Colin Gibson Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 12325 17673 65451 Used With Text: Sacred the Body

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Touch the Earth Lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 5.5.10 D Appears in 23 hymnals Matching Instances: 15 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: God Creation and Providence; Creation; Ecology; Forgiveness from God; God Creator; Healing; Hunger; Integrity of Creation; Seasons Changing; Stewardship; Unity; Unity of Creation; Water; Wonder; Epiphany 8 Year A; Proper 11 Year A Used With Tune: TENDERNESS

Sacred the Body

Author: Ruth Duck Meter: 5.5.10 D Appears in 5 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 Topics: Care of Creation; Creation; Incarnation; Love for Others; Providence Scripture: Romans 12:1 Used With Tune: TENDERNESS

God of the Future

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 5.5.10 D Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Topics: Commitment; Freedom; Future; Justice; Mission; Peace; Transformation; Vision Scripture: Revelation 21:3-5 Used With Tune: TENDERNESS

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Touch the Earth Lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: One in Faith #879 (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: Social Justice Languages: English Tune Title: TENDERNESS

Touch the Earth Lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, b. 1931 Hymnal: Worship (4th ed.) #808 (2011) 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: Stewardship Languages: English Tune Title: TENDERNESS

Touch the Earth Lightly

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, b. 1931 Hymnal: Evangelical Lutheran Worship #739 (2006) 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, 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: Creation; Creation; Hunger; Unity Languages: English Tune Title: TENDERNESS

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Colin Gibson

b. 1933 Person Name: Colin Gibson, 1933- Composer of "TENDERNESS" in Worship and Rejoice Colin Gibson (b. 1933) was born in Dunedin, the south island of New Zealand. He has been writing hymn texts and hymn settings for over 20 years. His works have been published and performed in Africa, the United States, Asia and Australasia, Great Britain and Europe. He is organist and director of the Mornington Methodist Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand, a lay preacher, and retired in 1999 as Head of the Department and Donald Collie Professor of English at the University of Otago where he currently heads the Department of Theatre Studies and continues to lecture on English Literature as Emeritus Professor. He has conducted numerous hymn workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and has been co-editor of a number of hymn collections. His frequent collaboration with Shirley Erena Murray is represented in several Hope publications, and he has his own published collections of hymns: Singing Love (Collins) and more recently Reading the Signature (Hope, 1994 - Code #1753) and Songs for a Rainbow People (Hope, 1998 - Code #8005). Three of his hymns are included in the Hope hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- 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