Our faithful sun gives light and warmth unending;

In all four billion years it’s been the same;

Our hero sun, foreboding yet befriending

Proclaims God’s presence with its fire and flame. 

Out planet home, ideal for life to flower

Provides the food and water for our needs;

All nature’s cycles – birthing life with power

Proclaim God’s presence in the death of seeds. 

The sand and stars, the ants and human tissue

Are spun with atoms, each in its own place;

These countless specks in all the cosmic menu

Proclaim God’s presence in all time and space. 

When Jesus trod the dusty paths of history

He loved, gave hope; he struggled for the right;

His death and then the hope fulfilling mystery

Proclaim God’s presence with astounding might.

We know and feel God’s presentness around us;

Within us and beyond our mortal mind;

The future, present and the past remind us

God’s presence is with all of humankind.

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George Stuart