We’ve just made available the sheet music for “Spirit of Creation” – an excellent resource for the Season of Creation. Written by myself (words) and Leigh Newton (music), the song picks up the theme of the Spirit groaning in Romans 8 and relates it to the plight of Creation and humanity’s response.
Spirit soaring o’er Creation
breathing rainbow world to birth
Trinity’s imagination
singing joy upon the earth
Spirit sighing in Creation
rising oceans, warming lands
seasons changing, creatures dying
havoc brought by human hands
God, hear our cry for all you’ve made
renew your world, show us your way
God, hear our cry for all we’ve marred
transform our lives, change us, we pray
Spirit groaning with Creation
crying for her planet’s mess
longing for its transformation
all that’s broken to be blessed
God, hear our cry for all you’ve made
renew your world, show us your way
God, hear our cry for all we’ve marred
transform our lives, change us, we pray
Spirit weaving through Creation
bringing mending in our hearts
hope restoring in the dawning
joining all that is apart
Spirit praying for Creation
with a plea too deep for words
yearning for shalom that’s coming
bringing healing to God’s world
God, hear our cry for all you’ve made
renew your world, show us your way
God, hear our cry for all we’ve marred
transform our lives, change us, we pray
Licensing with CCLI.
Here’s the video which can be played in worship to teach the song or simply as a reflection piece.
Recording by Leigh Newton. Video by Craig Mitchell.