IMAGE RELOCATION
CAN AN IMAGE RELOCATE?

Tune: God’s Image 7777D
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Colin Gibson
ST GEORGE’S, WINDSOR 77.77D
George Job Elvey 1816-1893

1. Can an image relocate
   Or forever must it stay
   In the mind where it once lived
   Through the past and still today?
   Must the images be tied
   To a home above the skies
   Or can images be freed
   To prevent their slow demise?
   

2. In the best of Hebrew thought
   Sacred space was image free,
   Emptiness filled all the place
   Where the carvings could not be.
   Where we thought that God once dwelt
   Lies a home in disrepair
   As the ancient dreamy worlds
   All decay and disappear.
   

3. Must God die with this demise?
   Not if images can move
   From an ailing dying world
   To new realms of Cosmic love.
   We are called to rev’rence now
   That great cosmic holy One
   Through expanding ways of thought
   That we now have just begun.
   

4. God within and yet beyond,
   God of all the cosmic ways,
   You with reverence we adore
   With our songs of joyful praise.
   May we move on unafraid
   To new thought we cease to scorn
   Thought that heralds many ways
   Our new thinking has been born.
   

Text and Melody © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony © Colin Gibson

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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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