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Last Day of an excellent conference ‘Science and Faith Perspectives on the Art of Being Human’ organised by The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. This hymn, sung to ‘Joyful, Joyful’ catches up one of the many powerful themes of the conference ‘Life Beyond Earth and the Place of Humans in the Cosmos’
This is also one of the 34 hymns/ songs/ poems for each day of Creationtide on this blog: Find the collection from the link on the right hand side of the page
Stars and planets sing your glory
Stars and planets sing your glory,
God of might and God of love;
time and space proclaim your story
written in the realms above.
All the beauty of the cosmos,
summoned by your great command
gathered shape; while out of nothing
matter formed, as you had planned.
Power beyond our wildest dreaming:
forces weak and forces strong
melded in the cosmic streaming
when the universe was young.
Out of chaos, spheres and orbits
and creation’s still unfolding
in a great ongoing song.
Here on earth a mighty wonder
brought about life’s earliest trace,
basis for both plants and creatures,
and in time, the human race:
Though we’ve grown in understanding
sin has torn this earth apart,
pitched against it we were helpless,
captive to our wayward hearts.
So the God who shaped the cosmos
set aside all power and might;
came, a humble human baby
in the darkness, God’s own light:
taught us through his life of loving
how he would redeem our race,
by the death and resurrection
of the God of time and space.