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ALL THINGS ARE BOUND TOGETHER NOW

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VOM HIMMEL HOCH 88.88
Melody from Valentin Schumann’s
“Geistliche Lieder”, Leipzig, 1539
Attrib. Martin Luther 1483-1546
 

1. All things are bound together now;
   Without that basic binding force
   The Cosmos would all fly apart
   Deprived of its attracting source.

2. All things are bound together now
   Yet every part has its own place
   Maintained by its protecting force
   That will preserve its role in space.

3. What place has love in Cosmic ways
   If love’s not there to intervene?
   It is the product of each force
   Within a balanced cosmic scheme.

4. At best our love twin forces holds,
   To be absorbed or to attract
   Not passive nor to seek control
   But sharing ways to interact.

5. Our love can take a range of forms
   For partners, parents or a child,
   For friends and all our dear loved ones
   With love that’s gentle or quite wild.

6. The highest bonding is God’s love
   Uniting while maintaining space,
   Not overpowering in its ways
   But full of tenderness and grace.

7. So let us learn from cosmic truth
   Affirming all it’s sacred power
   Till balanced ways for human love
   Spread deep compassion hour by hour.

Text © William Livingstone Wallace
Note: Attractive forces are necessary for molecules to cohere whereas repulsive forces act to prevent the molecules from interpenetrating and annihilating each other.
 
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William (Bill) Livingstone Wallace is a retired New Zealand Methodist Minister and one of our most prolific contributors. Bill says that his work springs from communicating with the fire in his gut and his observation of both the internal and external aspects of the Cosmos. Since an early age, he has been both sympathetic to and critical of the church, announcing at the age of 13 his belief in evolution. In his youth, he struggled with the disconnection between art and spirituality in his own and other denominations and with the way in which all of the liturgies prior to the sermon were regarded as preliminaries and longer sermons were viewed as superior to more concise ones.

He holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Dip. Ed. and is the author of nine published collections of his hymns as well as other resources on our website. His aim is to help people be empowered by the divine within them and the Cosmos and to work to overthrow the forces of personal and institutional greed which destroy both the ecosystem and human society.

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