8.7.8.7.8.7. Possible tune Rhuddlan (H&P 409, R&S 626)
Creation isn’t fixed forever,
Following a rigid plan.
God embracing evolution,
Sets it free each choice to scan,
Every struggle asks the question,
What do you say you will be?
Human life takes up the story,
Shapes afresh our heritage.
Genes and thoughts and touch of others,
Pass like actors ‘cross our stage.
Posing life’s eternal question,
Who do you say you will be?
Choice is always there before us,
Set within community,
How to use our gifts and graces
To express our liberty,
At each crossroads comes Christ’s question,
Who do you say that I am?
Each of us must find an answer,
From the place in which we stand,
Set a path to God incarnate,
Finding rock in shifting sand.
Then in answering Jesus’ question,
Shape the world that God would have.
If a different tune is used the penultimate line may need to be altered to:
‘Then in answering Christ’s question’
© Alan Hinton 2004
Permission given for use and private distribution,but not for commercial publication in any form.
