Sequence

AS THE SUNLIGHT TURNS TO SHADOW

Tune:

HOLY OTHER878787
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Wallace Woodley
MANNHEIM
Melody from a chorale by
Friedrich Filitz, 1804-1876
Oriel 87.87.87
K. Ett’s “Cantica Sacra”, Munich 1840
Later attrib. E. H. Kasper 1788- 1847
 

1. As the sunlight turns to shadow,
   And life loosens its firm hold;
   As wild storms and quakes enfold us
   And our hearts lie frayed and cold
   May we see behind the changes
   To where wholeness can unfold.

2. Sure as night will turn to daylight
   And the Winter birth the Spring
   Songs of hope produce the lyrics
   Love alone can ever sing
   For the circle with its changes
   Holds the fire that life can bring.

3. In the never ending wonder
   Both of images and song
   We discern the holy other
   As the place where we belong
   And our friendship with God’s being
   As the love for which we long.

Text and Melody © William Livingstone Wallace
Harmony Wallace Woodley
 
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Hymns “Cosmic Mystery”

 
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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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