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[Love is your way, love is your nature ]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Per Harling Tune Key: d minor or modal Incipit: 51564 74653 13432 Used With Text: God, in Your Grace (Love Is Your Way)

God, in Your Grace (Love Is Your Way)

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Love is your way, love is your nature Refrain First Line: God, in your grace, God in your mercy Lyrics: 1 Love is your way, love is your nature, blessing each creature, lighting each day; grace is your sign, gift of forgiveness, chalice that changes water to wine. Refrain: God, in your grace, God in your mercy, turn us to you to transform the world, turn us to you to transform the world! 2 Pathways we choose, undeserved freedom, earth as our kingdom, still we abuse; much we have done, gross human error, misuse of power darkens the sun. [Refrain] 3 Terror and tears, wounds without healing, hearts without feeling mirror our fears: life without trust, greed and high prices, conflict and crisis grind us to dust. [Refrain] 4 Let us stand still, look at each other, sister and brother thwarting your will: teach us good care, grace to seek pardon, reclaim your garden, riches to share. [Refrain] Topics: Confession; Discipleship and Service; Grace; Healing; Justice; Love; Mission; Nature; Peace; Social Cocerns Used With Tune: [Love is your way, love is your nature ]

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God, in Your Grace (Love Is Your Way)

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: For Everyone Born #18 (2008) First Line: Love is your way, love is your nature Refrain First Line: God, in your grace, God in your mercy Lyrics: 1 Love is your way, love is your nature, blessing each creature, lighting each day; grace is your sign, gift of forgiveness, chalice that changes water to wine. Refrain: God, in your grace, God in your mercy, turn us to you to transform the world, turn us to you to transform the world! 2 Pathways we choose, undeserved freedom, earth as our kingdom, still we abuse; much we have done, gross human error, misuse of power darkens the sun. [Refrain] 3 Terror and tears, wounds without healing, hearts without feeling mirror our fears: life without trust, greed and high prices, conflict and crisis grind us to dust. [Refrain] 4 Let us stand still, look at each other, sister and brother thwarting your will: teach us good care, grace to seek pardon, reclaim your garden, riches to share. [Refrain] Topics: Confession; Discipleship and Service; Grace; Healing; Justice; Love; Mission; Nature; Peace; Social Cocerns Languages: English Tune Title: [Love is your way, love is your nature ]

Love is your way

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Hope is our Song #95 (2009) Refrain First Line: God, in your grace Tune Title: GOD, IN YOUR GRACE

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Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Author of "God, in Your Grace (Love Is Your Way)" in For Everyone Born Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago