All Things Exist in Flowing Change
Cosmic Mystery Series
Change
ALL THINGS EXIST IN FLOWING CHANGE
Tune:
EVOLUTION 8787D
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Thomas Strickland
- All things exist in flowing change,
All things are ever moving,
The rocks all hold a quantum world
Whose dance is ever changing.
Each living thing will one day die
Except the myst’ry’s greatness
That has no starting point or end
And holds all cosmic fullness.
- All things are still evolving now
Including flesh and thinking
Despite our dreams that change will end,
Despite all our false learning.
When faith has lost it’s trust in facts
It lacks the power of coping
And joins conspiring leaders now
With dreams shaped by sick thinking.
- When all the “timeless” standards fail
In ethics, faith and fine art
They are replaced by other codes
With complex ways we now chart.
The woven-ness is now affirmed
As two-ness fades from viewing.
Diversity is then espoused
To help us find wise knowing.
- We all have need to nurture now
Compassion that’s expanding
That helps us see behind the words
And open ways of caring.
New thought needs sensitivity
To people’s varied growing
In ways their heart can shape their faith,
For nurture and unfolding.
- So let us give each new born thought
Respect from our discerning
And worship myst’ry more than words
With awe that passes learning.
We then will make a oneness space
That can replace all envy,
For all things from the myst’ry came
And to it all shall journey.
Text and Melody © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony © Thomas Strickland
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William (Bill) Livingstone Wallace is a retired New Zealand Methodist Minister and one of our most prolific contributors. Bill says that his work springs from communicating with the fire in his gut and his observation of both the internal and external aspects of the Cosmos. Since an early age, he has been both sympathetic to and critical of the church, announcing at the age of 13 his belief in evolution. In his youth, he struggled with the disconnection between art and spirituality in his own and other denominations and with the way in which all of the liturgies prior to the sermon were regarded as preliminaries and longer sermons were viewed as superior to more concise ones.
He holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Dip. Ed. and is the author of nine published collections of his hymns as well as other resources on our website. His aim is to help people be empowered by the divine within them and the Cosmos and to work to overthrow the forces of personal and institutional greed which destroy both the ecosystem and human society.
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