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As We Gaze Upon the Cross

Cosmic Mystery Series

by William L. Wallace on June 14, 2023 | No Reviews or Comments

 

Crucifixion

AS WE GAZE UPON THE CROSS

 
 

Tune:

DIX 77.77.77
arr William Henry Monk 183-1889
from a chorale by Conrad Kocher 1786-1872
 

  1. As we gaze upon the Cross
    We discern a tortured man
    Wracked by cruel suffering,
    Victim of a traitor’s plan.
    In that battered human flesh
    We see all that fear can fan.
  1. Jesus hanging on that Cross
    With forgiveness could proclaim
    God’s great loving will endure
    And will never ever wane.
    Suffering is the holy path
    To compassion’s sacred flame.
  1. When our heart is full of wounds,
    When our pain knows no release,
    All this cycle will dissolve
    As our empathies increase.
    When we share in others’ pain
    We discover God’s own peace.
  1. Can I be a Christ for you?
    Yes if I both share and care
    For the pain within your heart,
    All the pain you hide or wear.
    When your pain becomes my own
    It becomes a pain we share.
  1. So let’s join in sharing wounds,
    Source of liberating pow’r,
    For imprisoned wounds can each
    Poison living hour by hour
    But when wounds are owned and shared
    Love will grow and then will flower.
  1. God of Stabat Mater’s tears,
    Tears that share another’s pain,
    May we now embrace all life
    As one family again
    That our love for Planet Earth
    Shall endure and ever reign.

Text © William Livingstone Wallace
 
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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.

Click Here for a Full Biography of William L. Wallace

Click here for a complete list of his work on ProgressiveChristianity.org

Topics: Clergy/Ministry, Evolutionary Christianity, God, New Thought/New Age, Progressive Christianity 101, and Worship & Liturgy. Resource Types: Hymns and Music.

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