We've just restarted Sunday worship at St Bride's Church. At St Bride's we tend to have monthly themes, and the team putting September together decided to work with the idea of a river - from Genesis 2 to Revelation 22. I've written these hymn words to go with a well known tune, for this September series.
You're welcome to use it, just acknowledge authorship.
River of Life (to the tune Immortal Invisible)
The river of faith flows from cradle to grave
From bubbling fountain to great crashing wave.
From Eden, the source of the stories we tell,
To visions of cities where all shall be well.
Faith shape-shifts like water, in cloud, rain and sea,
It filters through rock and will always burst free.
The truth that we need will spring up from the earth
Pure life-giving water for all those who thirst.
The flood of the Spirit sweeps habit away
Exposing the comforting lies that we say;
Disturbing complacency, greening dry lands
And buoying us up as we float in God’s hands.
From Eden, the source of the stories we tell,
To visions of cities where all shall be well;
The river of faith may be winding and slow
Yet waters all soils for all love to grow.
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