Darkness Hymn
Cosmic Mystery Series
DARKNESS
From Darkness Came the Brightness
Tune: PASSMORE CRESCENT 76.76D
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Larry E. Schultz
1. From darkness came the brightness
From myst’ry thought evolved,
From silence came the singing,
From stillness acts unfold.
For God is in the darkness
The space that’s myst’ry’s realm,
The God of silent wonder,
The God who’s at the healm.
2. May I embrace the darkness
And choose the myst’ry’s ways.
May I seek silent stillness
And live with wondrous praise.
When darkness births the brightness
And mystery reigns supreme
Then silence shows the pathway
To sacred life and dream.
Text © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony © Larry E. Schultz
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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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