CREATOR OF THE WORLD
Tune: Leoni ('The God of Abraham Praise')
For Services of Baptism and Confirmation, and other occasions of Christian commitment.
Creator of the world,
whose breath gives life to all;
whose children, from the womb uncurled,
grow old and fall;
to your eternal hands
I trust myself today,
to find though all life's shifting sands
the Godly way.
The Godly way, O Lord,
the path which Jesus trod,
the daily offering of word
and deed to God;
help me that path to tread,
assume his life and death,
to sin and selfishness be dead,
and draw God's breath.
The breath of God shall be
pledge of our holiness,
the likeness of your family
restored in us.
Come, Holy Spirit, come,
the grace that Jesus gives,
make real in us what he has done
who ever lives.
O ever-living One,
O ever-loving Three,
to me a perfect love has come
eternally;
a love to wash me clean,
a love to drown my fears,
and loving arms on which to lean
through endless years.
The endless years shall be
fresh as the dawning day,
while travelling in company
the Godly way:
with heaven in our eyes,
and earth beneath our feet,
we walk in faith until we rise
and God we meet.
© Ian Jagger (2000)
