Deepest Needs

Without Mystery Spirits Shall Ail

Tunes: EDITH MARY 8888D

Melody: William L. Wallace

Harmony: Robyn Goudge

SCHMUCKE DICH

Melody: Johann Cruger 1649

 

1. Without myst’ry spirits shall ail,

    Without art there is no fullness,

    Without silence songs lie hidden,

    Without wonder life lacks brightness.

    From the fire comes warmth for living,

    Lack of water spells life’s ending,

    Our own blood sustains our being

    And Earth offers her befriending.

 

2. From reflection new ideas flow,

    Each rejection brings new freedom,

    All our pain can nurture caring,

    Every failure can grow wisdom.

    To the God of pilgrim pathways,

    To the God who forms life’s mortar,

    Of the God of myst’ry’s wonder

    We are each a son or daughter.

 

Text and Melody for “EDITH MARY” © William Livingstone Wallace

         Harmony © Robyn Allen-Goudge

 

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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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