For Some Life Held Great Options
Cosmic Mystery Series
Options
For Some Life Held Great Options
Tune: OPTIONS 7676D
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Marlene Phillips
PENLAN 76.76D (adapted)
David Jenkins 1849-1915
- For some life held great options, For others there were few. The choices we had made then
Shaped what we now can do.
Reflecting on our hist’ry,
Our mem’ry spawns regret
For dreams that smashed in pieces
Or goals we have not met.
- We all hold equal status
Within God’s point of view;
Both kings and peasants are one
With red blood or with blue.
We are God’s sacred children
Who mirror Earth’s great tale.
Each one embodies myst’ry
That ever shall prevail.
- What matters more than actions
Is who we really are;
So casting off sad mem’ries
Let’s focus on God’s care.
Mistakes should not enslave us
Nor futures blunt our plough
For in the realm of being
The future is the now.
Text © William Livingstone Wallace
“Options” Melody© William Livingstone Wallace
“Options” 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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