Words by Jon Swales
Voice by Jon & Sarah Swales
Music from Chris Sayburn, 'It Pours' Used with Permission
Father of Creation,
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
With Confidence
We Approach your throne of grace
To receive mercy
And find grace
And help in our time of need.
To you be all praise and glory.
Our need is great,
For we face shipwreck in the storm of climate breakdown.
Our need is great,
As the winds of unrestrained capitalism,
And the waves of consumerism,
Have charted a course to ruin.
Lord have mercy
Our need is great,
For your church has fallen asleep at the wheel,
Lord have mercy.
Our need is great,
But your grace is greater,
And your mercy ever sweet.
To you be praise and glory
Father of Creation,
Remember your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
Do not remember the sins our arrogant youth
and our rebellious ways;
We have drank deep from the wells of empire,
Our vision is blurred,
We stagger about as though blind,
Unaware of what befalls,
As temperatures rise,
Remember us.
For you O Lord are good.
As sea levels rise,
Remember us,
For you O lord are good
Our need is great,
But your grace is greater,
And your mercy ever sweet.
To you be praise and glory
Father of Creation
Out of the depths we cry to you, Lord;
Lord, hear our voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to our cry for mercy.
And, perhaps Lord you have a word for us,
A word for your sleeping church
Perhaps, O Father, you would say
‘Awake O Sleeper and Rise from the Dead
I have called you to be the hands and feet of my Son.’
For a such a time as this,
I have called my church to compassion,
I have called my church to justice.
‘Awake O Sleeper and Rise from the Dead
I have called my church to look and love like Jesus’.
To welcome the climate refugee,
Feed the Hungry,
Live as Peacemakers
Embody mercy
Speak Truth to Power,
Build Community,
Live humbly,
Flip Tables of injustice.
Do Justice
To live lives of self giving sacrificial love.
Father of Creation,
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
With Confidence
We Approach your throne of grace
To receive mercy
And find grace
And help in our time of need.
To you be all praise and glory.
Our need is great,
For we face shipwreck in the storm of climate breakdown.
Our need is great,
As the winds of unrestrained capitalism,
And the waves of consumerism,
Have charted a course to ruin.
Lord have mercy
Our need is great,
For your church has fallen asleep at the wheel,
Lord have mercy.
Our need is great,
But your grace is greater,
And your mercy ever sweet.
To you be praise and glory
Amen, Amen Amen
