Here are nine hymns that you may like to use, to be sung to well known tunes. New ones are being added.
The authors are happy for people to print their hymn for services and non commercial publications etc provided that the exact words are printed, and that the authors are credited. They would be pleased to hear where the hymns are being used.
| M.th |
Title |
Author |
Comment, Tune and Example Verse (Not necessarily first verse) |
Short comment |
1.
Jan |
Creator God, abundant Life your mark - |
Mrs Pat Bennett |
Sung at The Operation Noah Service on 4th November at the start of the Stop Climate Chaos Demonstrations. The hymn can be heard briefly in the interview with the Bishop of London on Radio 4
It was entered for the Settle Methodist Circuit hymn competition on the Environment in 2001
We pledge to touch all things with holy care
Until your coming Kingdom ends despair
Then all the world will witness and will share
The jubilation - Of healed creation. .......
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Good for pledging yourself to action |
2.
Feb |
The Glory of Creation - |
Denzil Walton |
Written for the Second Sunday before Lent - Creation / Environment Sunday in the Old Lectionary.The Second Sunday before Lent was treated as Environment or Creation Sunday in the Old Lectionary and still is in some versions of the Anglican Lectionary.
(Tune: Ewing or to other 7.6.7.6 D hymns) - and used by several visitors to this website for the occasion.
Deep mysteries, of oceans and unknown outer space,
Migration paths of swallows, the eagle's nesting place.
The more we gain in knowledge, the less we understand
This world so rich and complex, created by God's ha nd ........
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Some beautiful descriptions of Nature |
3.
Mar |
What the Lord Creates |
Jessica, Emily and Sam Crawshaw |
This hymn - sung to Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - won first prize in the Children's Section of the Settle Methodist Circuit and CEL Environment Hymn Competition 2001
Praise him, Praise him, Praise the Lord
For the wonders of the world.
For the people big and small
For the animals short and tall
We will care for all these things
That our Lord Creator brings. .......
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Could get your children to add extra verses. |
4.
Apr |
Entwining Circles |
Jean MacDonald |
Set to the folk tune "Waly Waly", this song reminds us that entwining circles "Join us with sea and earth and sky", the earth is suffering form pollution..but
So we believe, Creator God,
We make a difference when we say
Like that young boy with two small fish,
" Here, take and share my gifts today." . .......
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Haunting tune |
| 5. May |
The Earth is the Lord's |
Gerald H Gardiner |
.. touching on
harvest, delight in creation, and our present multi-faith society, . (Tune: Lord of the Dance)
The earth is the Lord's, sing Christian and Jew,
Sacred the earth for Muslim, Sikh, Hindu.
Reverence for life is the Buddhist way,
Violence none, in all we do and say. ........
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Good tune.
Multi faith element |
| 6 June |
Creator God |
Jenny Baines |
Sung to Sine nomine (For all the saints...)
Beneath the moon the ocean lifts its tide,
Help us to curb our poisoned human pride
Still may the whales, the fish and dolphins ride
Seas ever singing, ever singing ........
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This can make a joyful and moving end to an environment service. |
| 7. Sept |
Lord of All Lang-uages |
Audrey Theodosia Bryant |
Sung to Slade (Lord of all hopefulness)
Lord of all whispering, speak in the leaves
the small voice that counsels each one who believes,
Lift our eyes to the mountain, give us peace from the field
and wash us with rain that our souls may be healed. ........ |
Spiritual and thoughtful
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6 Verses |
| 8. Oct |
For the beauty of the earth |
Sheila Redmond |
Sung to: As the Deer Pants
But the earth belongs to our children,
It's not ours to destroy.
They will need its scarce resources,
To use and to enjoy. ........ |
Nice tune. Practical straight forward words |
9.
Aug '08 |
Good gifts for all |
Alison Blenkinsop |
Sung to "We plough the fields and scatter"
The fields of many countries
are tilled to pay their debt,
and so disease and poverty
remain a constant threat.
Their goods, unfairly traded,
make losses for our gain,
as most of all the profits
in wealthy hands remain. |
Hymn with green/ fairtrade/debt themes to well known harvest tune. |
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