We sing of human loving’s starting point

Emerging from the Cosmos at its birth.

Repulsion and attraction both were there

Yet from the latter love evolved on Earth .

 

The story tells how atoms joined as one

And cosmic matter formed from cosmic mist.

Through gravity created by their sun

The planet’s orbits can for now exist.

 

When life emerged within the blue green seas

Or crawled upon the planet’s furrowed face

Some single cells then joined to help adapt

To predators, to climate or to place.

 

Combining as a flock, or herd, or tribe,

Gave shelter from their enemy’s attack.

Attraction offered some inventive ways

That single members often seemed to lack.

 

The future for most species lies within

Attraction’s role in reproductive acts.

In humans this can lead to deeper love

Or merely form some gratifying pacts.

 

Beyond the powers of mating and of sex

Exists the need of each new life for care.

The nurturing that humans can display

Is something other species also share.

 

This patchwork of attractions has evolved

To gift the best of human loving’s ways;

The agapae that Jesus and the saints

Displayed for no reward or thought of praise.

 

The suffering servant was the role Christ chose,

To live for others formed his chosen task,

To see each person as a child of God

And look behind the hatred on their mask.

 

We too are called to walk the Way of Christ

Respecting all that lives in time and space.

With reverence for the ecosystem’s life

We work to save its symbiotic grace.

 

To say that “God is love” affirms the role

Attraction plays within the cosmic themes

And shows us how compassion’s rich displays

Can far exceed our wildest human dreams.

 

NOTE: This hymn is designed to be sung in sections with reflection or exposition in between.          

Text © William Livingstone Wallace.

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