People of God, Awake!
Tune: Hills of the North Rejoice/ Little Cornard
People of God, Awake!
In this earth’s crisis hour.
Bold in our stewardship
let us speak truth to power:
the use of fossil fuels must end
if we, the planet ‘s health would mend.
Unless good sense prevails
every low coastal place
will fall beneath the waves
millions will be displaced.
So may we like the prophets old
sound warnings and take actions bold.
If everyone of faith
rallied to make it clear
that our Creator God
needs us renounce our fears
of taking action, to demand
that gas, oil, coal are swiftly banned.
Then would our stewardship
chime with the will of God,
who must lament the wounds
wrought on the world he trod.
So protest now in forceful ways
to save these being earth’s last days.
Find more Care of the Planet poems, songs and hymns at https://crossandcosmos.blogspot.com/p/care-of-planet-collection.html