At Each Day’s Ending and At Death
Cosmic Mystery Series
Endings
AT EACH DAY’S ENDING AND AT DEATH
Tune:
DOMINUS REGIT ME
8787
John Bacchus Dykes, 1823-1876
ENDING 8787D
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Marlene Phillips
- At each day’s ending and at death
We all can test our living,
Our mode of thought and how we act
In times of peace or striving.
- In dying we can each return
To childhood ways of knowing,
A world where peace and stillness rule
Where wonder shapes our doing.
- This place that once we called our home
Where emptiness abided
Beyond all thought of pain and strife
Our childhood awe resided.
- We all can dwell in wonderment
Till life on Earth has closure,
Then God’s bright fire will fill our hearts
With love beyond all measure.
Text and Dying Melody © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony © Marlene Phillips
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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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