This is the NASA image of the day for 27th February of star clusters M35 and M36. It is images like this which have been an inspiration in the writing of ‘As I Look Up at The Cosmos and Pray.
The song is to the delightful tune of ‘As I Went Down to the River to Pray’ which I listen to regularly as part of my morning quiet time: a tune I have come to love and which I wanted to vest with a fresh and contemporary set of words. They emerged as a children’s song which was an unexpected delight.
The song expresses, for me, the important understanding that God made, not only earth sky and sea, but the whole Universe -and all its resplendent glories. So let’s sing this with joy and maybe a fresh insight into the amazing greatness of our God.
As I Look Up at the Cosmos and Pray, (Sorry! Score in course of adjustment - for ‘Above’ in heading and first line, read ‘and pray)
As I look up at the cosmos and pray,
marvelling about the wondrous way
in which the Lord created this,
quite daz-dazzling array
Oh Children! Let’s look up,
let’s look up, up-up above.
Oh Children! let’s look up,
up at the cosmos and pray.
Oh Sisters! Let’s look up,
let’s look up, up-up above.
Oh Sisters! Let’s look up,
up at the cosmos and pray.
Oh Brothers! Let’s look up,
let’s look up, up-up above.
Oh Brothers! Let’s look up,
up at the cosmos and pray.
Oh Mothers! Let’s look up,
let’s look up, up-up above.
Oh Mothers! Let’s look up,
up at the cosmos and pray.
Oh Fathers! Let’s look up,
let’s look up, up-up above.
Oh Fathers! Let’s look up,
up at the cosmos and pray.
All people! Let’s look up,
let’s look up, up-up above.
All people! Let’s look up,
up at the cosmos and pray.
TT February 2025
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There is a splendid instrumental version of the tune by Kaleb Brasse at on You Tube here which can be used to sing along with
