Within Christ’s complex heart and mind

Three streams emerged and joined as one:

The man who spoke with prophet’s fire

Showed mother-love and childlike fun.

This trilogy of equal worth,

This source of joy and inner health,

Gives male and female and the child

An honoured place within the self.

But unjust structures still abound

Denying people’s rights today.

You urge us, Christ, to right the wrongs

And help each wounded heart to play.

You free us all to laugh and cry,

To love and touch released from fear,

To nurture all the life of Earth

Through God, the source of all true care.

God help us all, with childlike joy,

Affirm our strength and tenderness,

That male and female in our hearts

May join as one with graciousness.

Alternative Tune: Heronsgate

Text © William Livingstone Wallace. Arrangement © Barry Brinson.

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