🎼She who knew injustice—
pow'r to strike and kill—
sees our world of violence,
sees and grieves it still.
Let us stand with Mary then,
stand with those oppressed,
mirror God's compassion:
love expressed.
#transinchurch
🎼 Let's talk together of the time
when we will share a feast,
when pride and power kneel to serve
the lonely and the least,
and joy will set the table
as we join hands to pray,
singing welcome,
welcome to this place.
You're invited to come and know
God's grace.
#transinchurch
🎼 Hallelujah for my Jesus,
for his life's surprising course!
May I, too, live bold resistance
to injustice, hate, and force.
Surely peace, it has a cadence,
asking all of what we bring!
And if music is God breathing,
take a holy breath and sing!
#transinchurch
🎼 There's a wild hope in the wind:
her whisper is heard on the breeze.
The gale is her shout that is calling us out.
There's a wild hope in the wind.
O God in the wind, come gather us in,
be our courage and promise.
The future is dim, but we want to live in
to a wild, wild hope.
#transinchurch
🎼God weeps with us who weep and mourn;
God's tears flow down with ours,
and God's own heart is bruised and worn
from all the heavy hours
of watching. While the soul's bright fire
burned lower day by day,
and pulse and breath and love's desire
dimmed down to ash and clay.
#transinchurch
🎼God, who in your holy gospel
Willa that all should truly live,
make us sense our share of failure,
our tranquility forgive.
Teach us courage as we struggle
in all liberating strife.
Lift the smallness of our vision
by your own abundant life.
#transinchurch#abolishice
🎼Today we sing with restlessness,
we ever look to you.
Infuse is with your Spirit, then,
give us your work to do.
Fill us with courage and resolve,
and grant humility,
as we employ our kinda and hearts
to right the wrongs we see.
#transinchurch
🎼I bind my soul this day
to the neighbor far away
and the stranger near at hand,
in this town and in this land.
I bind myself in peace,
to make strife and envy cease.
God knit secure the cord
of my thrall-dom to the Lord.
#transinchurch
🎼O Prince of Peace, you lead us
in ways of truth and grace.
May we be brave to practice
your peace in ev'ry place—
to love each fear filled nation,
to serve each troubled street.
How great the celebration
when peace and justice meet.
#transinchurch
🎼Yet with the woes of sin and strife,
the world has suffered long;
beneath the heav'nly hymn have rolled
two thousand years of wrong,
and earring humankind hears not
the tidings which they bring.
O hush the noise and cease your strife
and hear the angels sing!
#transinchurch#christmaseve