The Tree of Life’s A Symbol
Cosmic Mystery Series
Tree Wisdom
The Tree of Life’s A Symbol
Tunes: MYSTERY’S WAY 76 76D
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Wallace Woodley
WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN
Melody: Johann Steurdein (1546-1613)
Harmony: revised Barry M. Brinson
- The tree of life’s a symbol
For what each tree can be,
It opens ways of thinking
That set each person free.
Some stand in isolation
Yet jointly forests form.
Aloneness in a tree’s life
Can never be the norm.
- Our spirits may be single
Yet longing to be one
Within the sphere of wholeness
Where oneness is the fun.
Beyond our thoughts lie spaces
Devoid of gate or wall,
The space of myst’y’s dwelling
Where large is very small.
- Through entering the silence
We learn the ways to find
Our breathing has a rhythm
That goes with emptied mind.
At times we will discover
All bound’ries can dissolve
Through oneness of encounter
That helps our grace evolve.
- The way we each can let go
Is what we all can find.
Where walls have all now vanished
There dwells the open mind.
These moments of awareness
Beyond what eye can see
Are sequins in the darkness
That set our spirits free.
- All these great primal moments
Give access to a world
Where wonder and God’s myst’ry
In silence are unfurled.
In quietude we find now
The God of mystic truth,
The God of walls dissolving,
The God of ageless youth.
- We feel astride the mountain
Alone yet not alone;
There always is the Other
The One whose touch we own.
From mountain tops we climb down
To broken lives below
And with God’s peace bring healing
Through ways that we now know.
- We can’t predict the timing
When walls dissolve and flee
But we can practice stillness
Where praying longs to be.
The birthing of awareness
Is wak’ning that we seek;
Experience that’s longed for
By both the strong and weak.
Text and Melody for “Mystery’s Way” © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony for “Mystery’s Way” © Wallace Woodley
Revised Harmony for WIE LIBLICH IST DER MAIEN © Barry M. 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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