CREATIONTIDE COLLECTION: Links to all thirty-four daily posts followed by an alphabetical index, both lists have brief explanations of the posts. Where hymns or songs (marked with a double asterisk) ** are identified, they are all able to be sung to well-known tunes which are suggested within the posts.
CREATIONTIDE COLLECTION: Links to all posts - Daily Index.
Sept 1st Ex Nihilo: Creation Bursts Forth: Day 1 Celebrating our existence
Sept 2nd Job 34 v 4 and ff - Reimagined: Day 2
Sept 3rd Daffodils Sublime - Life and Death: Day 3 Written after a visit to a churchyard in Farndale.
Sept 4th Plea of an Unborn Child: Day 4 Climate chaos.
Sept 5th I Met with Beauty, Science and Faith: Day 5 Each plays a role deserving of thanks
** Sept 6th Come Praise The Lord, The Potentate of Time: Day 6 Praise to the One beyond the limitations of time.
** Sept 7th As Mighty Glaciers Recede: Day 7 A Climate chaos poem/ hymn
** Sept 8th Beyond The Farthest Mortal Eye Can Scan - DNA: Day 8 a poem/ hymn celebrating the minuscule or the far-distant.
** Sept 9th Day 9. From here, access a printable three-fold small collection of six Climate Change hymns/song all set to well known tunes. Find link here
** Sept 10th Stars and Planets Sing Your Glory: Day 10 The whole cosmos is joined to this song of praise which can be sung to 'Lux Eoi' or ‘Joyful, Joyful’.
Sept 11th Psalm 24 Reimagined for Today
Sept 12th Reflection on Gold of an Ikon: Day 12 Poem arising from a week spent in the company of Icon painters sensing their tension at using an element as precious as gold.
Sept 13th White Sails: Day 13 Celebrating the beauty of wind turbines both for their appearance and their ability to harvest energy cleanly.
Sept 14th Look Around in Many Towns and Villages An encouragement to people to speak with church representatives to think about starting a community fundraising scheme to finance solar panels on a churches’ south facing roofs. (They all, bar a few, have them!)
** Sept 15th Praise The Creator God: Day 15 A poem/ hymn challenging our perspectives of God.
** Sept 16th We Have a Lovely Planet: Day 16 A simple song for children, with an ecological theme.
** Sept 17th Give Thanks to God for Human Brains: Day 17 A celebration of the most complex part of our human bodies.
** Sept 18th Let The Cosmos Praise Its Maker: Day 18 Let us join with the whole Cosmos in praise.
Sept 19th Evolution and Beauty: Day 19 Short meditation on the nature of Evolution
Sept 20th Psalm 93 Reimagined for C21: Day 20
Sept 21st Of Herbs and Electrons: Little by Little: Day 21 Celebrating the attributes of herbs and how they soothe and heal.
** Sept 22nd Corals Are Bleaching: Day 22 A climate chaos poem/ hymn that can be sung to the well known tune of Bunessan (Morning Has Broken).
Sept 23rd In A Garden of Herbs: Day 23 Thanksgiving for the healing and soothing properties of herbs.
** Sept 24th NEW FOR 2022 People of God, Awake! Sing of the Urgency of our global crisis.
** Sept 25th The Bible Starts with Awesome Tale: Day 25 Written with children in mind to encourage the understanding that we can celebrate the scientific understanding of creation alongside the Biblical narrative.
** Sept 26th Does The God Who Lived a Human Weep: Day 26 - Lament for species loss
Sept 27th I Imagine The God Who Created (Lindisfarne): Day 27 Read this and try to think how you would describe the God we worship.
Sept 28th Song of a Church Rooftop Day 28 A lighthearted challenge to communities to encourage their local church officers to consider placing star panels on their south-facing rooftops (almost all churches have one or two even.
Sept 29th Psalm 150 Reimagined for C21: Day 29 The glorious final Psalm of David reimagined with today’s language and understandings.
** Sept 30th For Amazement by Beauty: Day 30 Set to the tune of Sans Day Carol.
** Oct 1st O Great Creator who Desires: Day 31 A lament for species loss - set to ‘Eternal Father Strong to Save
Oct 2nd Prayer for Understanding New Knowledge: Day 33 We are surrounded by scientific advances almost daily. Most/ many are beneficial; some challenge our perceptions.
** Oct 3rd Make Us Good Stewards Lord (for St Francis’ Day).: Day 34
A challenge within this poem/ hymn
Alphabetic Index of Creationtide posts
An A - Z Meditation: An acrostic meditation (First letters = the alphabet)
** As Mighty Glaciers Recede: A Climate chaos poem/ hymn
** Beyond The Farthest Mortal Eye Can Scan - DNA: One of a small selection of poems/ hymns celebrating the minuscule or the far-distant.
Come Praise The Lord, The Potentate of Time:Praise to the One beyond the limitations of time
** Corals Are Bleaching: A climate chaos poem/ hymn that can be sung to the well known tune of Bunessan (Morning Has Broken).
Daffodils Sublime - Life and Death: Written after a visit to a churchyard in Farndale.
** Does The God Who Lived a Human?: A lament/ confession for our carelessness of the Earth
Evolution and Beauty: Short meditation on the nature of Evolution
Ex Nihilo: Creation Bursts Forth: Celebrating our existence
** For Amazement by Beauty: Set to the tune of Sans Day Carol
** Give Thanks to God for Human Brains: A celebration of the most complex part of our human bodies.
I Imagine The God Who Created (Lindisfarne): Read this and try to think how you would describe the God we worship
I Met with Beauty, Science and Faith:Each plays a role deserving of thanks
Job 34 v 4 and ff - Reimagined: Possibly the best Bible passage explaining Old Testament cosmology re-imagined in the language and with the scientific understandings of today
** Let The Cosmos Praise Its Maker: Let us join with the whole Cosmos in praise
** Make Us Good Stewards Lord (for St Francis’ Day). A challenge within this poem/ hymn
Of Herbs and Electrons: Little by Little: Celebrating the attributes of herbs and how they soothe and heal.
Othona, St Peter’s-on-The-Wall, Bradwell-on-Sea: A place in which to ponder the spread of the Christian message.
Plea of an Unborn Child: Climate chaos
** Praise God for Wonders Deep in Space: Creation writ large in a poem/ hymn
** Praise The Creator God: A poem/ hymn challenging our perspectives of God
Prayer for Creativity: Prayer for anyone involved with creativity for mission
Prayer for Understanding New Knowledge: We are surrounded by scientific advances almost daily. Most/ many are beneficial; some challenge our perceptions.
Psalm 150 Reimagined for C21: The glorious final Psalm of David reimagined with today’s language and understandings.
Reflection on Gold of an Ikon: Poem arising from a week spent in the company of Icon painters sensing their tension at using an element as precious as gold.
** Source of The Fundamental Forces: Poem/ Hymn Tune written especially for this theme of God in the basic building blocks of the universe and our lives.
Sonnet of The Source: The Creator praised in a sonnet
** Stars and Planets Sing Your Glory: The whole cosmos is joined to this song of praise which can be sung to 'Lux Eoi' or ‘Joyful, Joyful'
** The Bible Starts with Awesome Tale: Written with children in mind to encourage the understanding that we can celebrate the scientific understanding of creation alongside the Biblical narrative.
** We Have a Lovely Planet: A simple song for children, with an ecological theme
White Sails: Celebrating the beauty of wind turbines both for their appearance and their ability to harvest energy cleanly.
