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Collation of songs for peace on Singing from the Lectionary (thanks, Natalie!)
Peace Salaam Shalom (global images, great vocals)
Peace Salaam Shalom – new song by David and Dale MacGregor (score and lyrics here)
Put peace into each other’s hands (Words: Fred Kaan; Music: David MacGregor)
Make me a channel of your peace (TiS)
Bring your peace, Lord
Youtube (with lyrics)
Bring your peace, Lord
Bring your peace, Lord
Bring your peace, O Lord
Peace again
Peace in the hard times
Peace in the pain
Bring your peace, O Lord
Peace again.
Bring your hope, Lord …
Bring your love, Lord …
Bring your life, Lord …
David MacGregor
© 2015 Willow Publishing
The Peace That We Share
Tune: To God be the Glory 11.11.11.11
The peace that we share when we turn and shake hands
Is simply the peace that our Saviour commands.
As Christ reigns in heaven, he calls us to live
As people forgiven, with God’s peace to give.
Refrain:
May the peace that we share be for more than our friends;
As we risk and we dare so God’s kingdom extends.
Remind us again, Lord, that seeds will increase –
that you’ll give the harvest when we work for peace!
Peace grows through the dreamers who seek a new way,
Through workers who struggle to build God’s new day.
It grows through the soldiers who once fought in wars
Yet now seek a new way that heals and restores.
Peace grows through the diplomats forging a deal
And building a treaty so nations can heal.
Peace grows when our fears don’t control what we do –
When we see that others are God’s children, too.
Peace grows when our leaders are brave to spend funds
On schools and on students, not weapons and guns.
Peace grows when all citizens work for the good
So all will have housing and health care and food.
When all use their talents so conflicts will cease,
Imagining, working and risking for peace,
When nations negotiate rather than fight
Then justice is possible! Peace is in sight!
Tune: William Howard Doane, 1875 (“To God Be the Glory”)
Text: © 2015 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved.
bcgillette@comcast.net www.carolynshymns.com/
Gentle God when we are driven
Words: © 1982 Shirley Murray Music: © 1982 Jillian Bray
Youtube
Gentle God, when we are driven
past the limits of our love,
when our hurt would have a weapon and the hawk destroy the dove,
at the cost of seeming weak, help us turn the other cheek.
Gentle Spirit, when our reason
clouds in anger, twists in fear,
when we strike instead of stroking, when we bruise and sting and smear,
cool our burning, take our pain, bring us to ourselves again.
In the mirror of earth’s madness let us see our ravaged face,
in the turmoil of all people
let compassion find a place,
touch our hearts to make amends, see our enemies as friends.
Let our strength be in forgiving as forgiven we must be,
one to one in costly loving, finding trust and growing free,
gentle God, be our release, gentle Spirit, teach us peace.
Give us a vision of peace, Lord, we pray (Tune: Slane)
Give us a vision of peace, Lord, we pray,
peace for tomorrow and peace for today,
peace for this planet whose future we hold,
peace for the children and peace for the old
Give us a vision of peace that will be
firm as a mountain and wide as the sea,
peace in our prayers, in our praise and our pain,
peace for the children who cry out in vain.
Give us a vision of peace, Lord of all,
peace for the great one and peace for the small,
peace in our labor and peace in our sleep,
peace for the children, a promise to keep.
Give us a vision of peace for our age,
peace for the healing of hatred and rage,
peace for our living together as one,
peace for the children when our life is done.
(Words: Mary Kay Beall, © 1999 Hope Publishing Company)
Sing for Peace
Words © 2004 Shirley Murray. Music © Vivien Chiu
Everything that has voice
sing for peace, speak for peace,
given chance, given choice,
work for peace, write for peace, resonating ev’rywhere,
echoing our common care:
ev’rything that has voice, sing for peace!
All the world longs for peace
cries for peace, dies for peace,
let the children, every place
sleep in peace, grow in peace,
home and country safe to be where the spirit rises free,
all the world longs for peace, cries for peace.
Ev’ryone who has breath,
you and I, passers-by,
ev’ry tenant of the earth
plant for peace, gather peace,
cultivate a neighbourhood
cherishing our neighbours’ good:
ev’ryone who has breath, live in peace! (Repeat final verse)
It is time, let the white poppies bloom
Words: ©2015 Shirley Murray. Music ©2015 Colin Gibson
It is time! Let the white poppies bloom
and the blood of the past stain no more;
It is time for the sowing of seed
that will outgrow the jungles of war.
And the soul of the world will be healed (will be healed)
and the darkness give way to the sun,
and the terror of nuclear night will be gone
in a peace that will never be done.
It is time that the white poppies grow
through the hatreds and hurts that survive,
it is time for the tumbling of towers,
and the building of trust kept alive.
And the soul of the world will be healed…
It is time: let the white petals float
over countries and cultures and lands;
It is time that the dreams that were lost
be reclaimed by our hearts and our hands.
And the soul of the world will be healed…
Song: O Day of peace that dimly shines
O day of peace that dimly shines
through all our hopes and prayers and dreams,
guide us to justice, truth, and love,
delivered from our selfish schemes.
May swords of hate fall from our hands,
our hearts from envy find release,
till by God’s grace our warring world
shall see Christ’s promised reign of peace.
Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb,
nor shall the fierce devour the small;
as beasts and cattle calmly graze,
a little child shall lead them all.
Then enemies shall learn to love,
all creatures find their true accord;
the hope of peace shall be fulfilled,
for all the earth shall know the Lord.
(Words Carl P Daw © 1982 Hope Publishing Company)
World Peace Prayer (link takes you to a live recording)
Lyricist: Satish Kumar and Marty Haugen. Music: Marty Haugen
Lyrics here.
Peace in our time – music and words by Melvyn Cann (Australian composer and musician), sung by Rachel and uploaded to Youtube with images. Could be used as prayers of intercession meditation.
