Hymn words
Come we here in gathered meeting
Suggested Tune: Abbot’s Leigh 87 87 D
Come we here in gathered meeting, ours to live with love and prayer. Here a story to all our living, come we in thought word and deed. This we share in grace of giving, searching our ways to serve the call, here we stand, in song and speaking. This
Joseph Priestley
Any 76 76 76 76 tune will fit
I am a Unitarian.
Joe Priestley is my name.
I am a strict one-Godder,
who from West Riding came.
I preached the Word at Nantwich,
in Leeds and Birmingham;
but now I live in exile,
American, I am.
For wanting human freedom
they burned my
There is but one good vision
Tune: Thornbury
There is but one good vision,
That age to age remains,
It has been there through all time
Though often one may doubt,
That vision that unites us
Is showing love around
To others on our journey
By word and deed and thought.
To find those lost in darkness,
And share with them our light.
This is the place
Great Hucklow, Derbyshire
There’s a place where I can go
when I feel low, when I feel blue…
(The Beatles, ‘There’s a Place’, 1963)
There’s a place I came to
so often in those days.
It was a very special place
for me back then.
To come here now stirs memories
of friends and lovers lost,
of hopes and
Eternal Spirit
Tune: St Agnes, Durham (Spirit Divine! Attend our Prayer)
Eternal spirit, holy one
we praise your many names.
May every hand and heart and soul
nurture your sacred flame.
May we have all we need to eat
and then enough to share;
forgive those who have done us wrong
and help all in our care.
May we be
Ours is a caravan
Tune: O Waly Waly
Ours is a caravan of hope
For, travelling through a landscape bare,
We, in our thoughts and dreams, have scope
To find a sweet oasis there.
Ours is a caravan of peace,
For even in the jungle wild,
We’ve space to let our struggles cease
And rest as gentle as a child.
Ours
When we gather here to worship
Suggested Tune: Cross of Jesus (202G)
When we gather here to worship,
Though we may be two or three,
In the name of what is holy,
We are touched by mystery.
When we sit in gentle silence
Reaching deep within our hearts,
We find hidden threads within us,
To bind up our broken parts.
When we speak our
For the light
Suggested tune Calon Lan (268G)
For the light of days remembered
which has brought us to this place,
and the light of love and justice
for the wider human race;
for the light which burns and blazes
to inspire us to our best,
and the light which in its fading
calls us to our nightly rest;
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