Move our feet to join the path
Teach us steps to share the dance
Fear has partnered our past moves
Yet our lives are filled with loves
Love of partner and of friend
Sacred loves that never end
Love sustains and fills the heart
With courage so we play our part.
Move our voice to sing your song
Raise our arms to hold the throng
Guide our words in singing truth
May the depths of good take root
Respect first peoples and terrains
May grace fill our joint refrains
May Christ’s heart become our choice
As confession finds its voice.
Ideas emerge and some confuse
Preachers argue or amuse
Help us leave the powered place
Seek instead the need for grace
Find our home in cells and camps
Offer silence, light a lamp
Live with questions without answer
Witness lame become the dancer.
Faith in Christ opens the shutter
Shares resources, slows the clutter
Without God, nothing matters
For nothing is all that’s left
Without God, all hope shatters
Hearts are broken, souls bereft
Find belonging without merit
Measure instead Spirit-credit
Depart oppressive moralism
Find a spiritual optimism
Seek the God who recognizes
Receive the gifts that blessing prizes
Turn-resist perfectionism
Longing prompts aestheticism
Reject abusive spiritual grooming
Rather integrate life’s blooming
Challenge fixtures, find the place
For conversation - people space
Guiding lights illuminate
Pray and read of love and hate
Do not shy away from sorrow
Hope comes with dawning of the morrow
Service of all kinds has need
Action sits alongside creed.