We Need A Cross to Sign
Cosmic Mystery Series
Good Friday
We Need A Cross to Sign
Tune: NECESSARY 8686D.
Melody: William L. (Bill) Wallace.
Harmony: Geri Zanon
- We need a cross to sign the truth
That pain is part of life,
For joys and sorrows intertwine
And growth evolves through strife.
The world of nature often shows
A savage cross-shaped face –
Volcanic lava on the earth –
Exploding stars in space.
- A pilgrimage that seeks to flee
From terrors of the night
Will disappear in unreal clouds
That masquerade as light.
Unless we face the complex world
Beyond the simple smile
Our fragile hearts will lie exposed
To all that we revile.
- If all the fractures in our hearts
Are ever to be healed
We must embrace the Cosmic God
Which nature has revealed,
For God is earthquake, God is fire,
As well as peace and light,
The God of process is the one
Who comes within the night.
- O give us courage, Cosmic God
To own what you reveal,
The courage to confront the worst
Life’s crosses can unseal.
Enshrouded in the meeting point
Of all Earth’s vast extremes
We find your vibrant spirit’s power
To birth cohesive dreams.
Text and Music © William Livingstone Wallace.
Alternative Tune: FOREST GREEN
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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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