1. You hold us in your arms, our Mama,
Dreamed into being by holy love,
Placed in this world of awesome beauty,
With all below, beside, above.

2. Your blood runs azure in our rivers.
Your waters break in oceans green.
Your sweetness flows in crimson maple.
Your brilliance gleams in frosty sheen.

3. Instead of love we seek dominion
We build our empires without heed or care.
O rock us, Mama, back into tending,
With graciousness, in the home we share.

4. Restore the guardians of ancient wisdom.
Unsettle us with brave insight.
Come find us amid all precious creatures,
Together healing and making right.

Lyrics: Jennifer Henry (March 2026)
Tune options: “The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended” (437 in Voices United)

1. Christ, help us to believe
When hate murders the Good
And terror grips the streets
When cruelty is the latest fad
Christ, help us to believe.

2. When lawless is the norm
And force defies restraint  
When peace is trumped by raging war
Christ, help us to believe.

3. When fierce divisions rule
And enemy is all
When empathy translates as weak
Christ, help us to believe.

4. Christ help us to believe
Love triumphs over hate
That change rolls forth in mighty wave
And peace with justice reigns

5. We claim God’s grace in “we”
In hope that foils despair
By loving neighbour near and far
Acting til we believe.

Lyrics: Jennifer Henry (January 2026)
Tune options: Common Meter is  6686; Daman, Psalmes 1579 (607 Voices United)

1. We hear the voice of Mary still
In women the whole world around
Who bring the hope of God to birth,
And free those who are bound.
Her voice is in the dream of all that terror and want will end.
She stirs our passion even now. Her faith to us she lends.

2. We see the beauty of angels still
In heaven’s magnificent glow,
In light that dances in the cold
And colours that bend in a bow.
The splendour that our God displays reveals Her dream of peace.
Divine good news speaks to us still to make all warring cease.

3. We wait alongside shepherds still,
With those whose nights are long.
And yet they bring true faith to bear
and daring hope keep strong.
It was to workers God’s joy came, those whom the world heard from.
Through those on empire’s margins still God’s powerful messages come.

4. We see the magi journey still
In wise ones who seek the Divine.
With truth the star that guides them on
And faith the tie that binds.
Defying tyrants now as then, compassion holding sway,
Their inspiration still they give, to go another way.

5. Into the cradle of our hearts
the Child is, once again, born.
The Christ who comes to bring great joy
The Hope that takes our form.
The wild conspiracy of love that brought the Saviour to birth
Continues in our day and time, embracing all on earth.

Lyrics: Jennifer Henry (2025)
Tune Options: “It came upon the midnight clear” CAROL (Willis)
Note: Picture of Nativity scene in the midst of lit Christmas trees: Unsplash, Mustafa Turhan

1. Loved into being, by the Creator,
creatures revealing beauty divine.
Precious your textures, exquisite your colours,
diverse beyond measure, bold your design.

2. Christ interrupting, all our injustice,
bold love disrupting failures to care.
Seeking our witness, equity flowering,
daring within us, redress and repair.

3. Spirit unfolding, forging connexions,
deep in belonging, each find their place.
Risking inclusion, mutually transforming,
beloved perfusion, abundant in grace.

4. Torn and divided, forgetting your promise,
needing reminded just whose we are.
Rethread your vision, restore our fabric
Weaver Christ risen, mending us all.

Lyrics: Jennifer Henry (2025)

Tune options: It might scan to a traditional Gaelic melody, with traditional words by Eleanor Farjeon, made famous in a less traditional rendition by Cat Stevens.

Note: I have been coming undone by the vilifying of DEI. Not only are these hard won words, values, aspirations, strategies and commitments, they strike me as core to the dream of God, the essence of God’s revelation of themselves. I wrote this poem/hymn reflecting on the Trinity and this trio of words. Blame the Methodists for “connexion”. It’s still a work in progress but I thought I would share it.