Peace
CLAIMING PEACE WHEN PEACE IS ABSENT

 

Tunes: BEST WAYS 87.87.87
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Barry Brinson
TRIUMPH (Gauntlett)
Henry S. Gauntlett 1805-1876

1. Claiming peace when peace is absent *
   Stirs the prophet’s angry call.
   Peace may seem as close as breathing
   War though seldom seems to stall.
   Gods of war still hold their power
   Making hope of peace seem small.
   

2. Hidden in all hate and warfare
   Lies the claim some ways are best
   Be they politics or faith views
   Money or our culture’s quest.
   Neither pow’r nor greed is God’s way,
   Humbleness is what is best.
   

3. Friends let’s now adopt this just cause
   Working for a Christ-like peace,
   Peace where diff’rence is now treasured
   Naming poverty as beast.
   When each person’s worth is valued
   All shall share the Gospel feast.
   

*Ezekiel 13:10
“Peace when there is no peace”
Text and Melody © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony © Barry Brinson

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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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