Averil Stedeford


God Who Made the World

God who made the world and loves it grieves to see the way we’ve hurt the good earth and diverse creatures. Wake our guilt, make us alert to our part in global warming floods and drought, polluted seas starving people, loss of species dried up farmland, burned up trees. Wake us, God, to thought and action spur us, show us how we can turn the tide and ease the suffering, live on earth as you have planned. God who let us split the atom, speed through space and reach the moon teach us how to use such powers peacefully, for everyone. When the world of good and evil forces us to make a choice may we give due weight as you do to each suffering, pleading voice. God who speaks, help us to listen, work and vote, pray and sing, change our values, live more simply build a world where love is king.

Averil Stedeford


Tune suggestions: 'Marching' by Martin Shaw ('Through the night of doubt and sorrow' is usually sung to this) or 'Laus Deo', ('Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore him').

Meter: 87 87 D trochaic