For Beauty of Meadows

For Beauty of Meadows

Text written by Walter H. Farquharson (1936-    )

Sung to the hymn tune ANNIVERSARY SONG, written in 1980 by Jane Marshall (1924-    )

Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Genesis 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." 

V. 1 For beauty of meadows, for grandeur of trees,

For flowers of woodlands, for creatures of seas,

For all You created and gave us to share,

We praise you, Creator, extolling Your care.

V. 2 As stewards of beauty received at Your hand,

As creatures who hear Your most urgent command,

We turn from our wasteful destruction of life,

Confessing our failure, confessing our strife.

Genesis 2:8 The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 

Matthew 6:9 "Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.'"

V. 3 Teach us once again to be gardeners in peace;

All nature around us is ours but on lease;

Your name we would hallow in all that we do,

Fulfilling our calling, creating with You.