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Her texts have appeared in more than 100 collections worldwide and have been translated into several languages. She has been an editor with the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust and received international acclaim for her writing, including being made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music (2006) and becoming a Member of the NZ Order of Merit (2001) for services to the community through hymn writing. She is the first citizen to be so honored. Most recently, she has been honored by the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada at its July 2009 annual conference by being named a Fellow of the Society in recognition of her contributions as a hymn writer to the international community of congregational song. Also, in 2009, she was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) from the University of Otago.
Shirley has been the Erik Routley Fellow (PCUSA) in 1996 and her hymns have been included in the worship of the World Council of Churches' Assemblies.
She has worked with Dr I-to Loh, musical ethnologist from Taiwan, in paraphrasing Asian hymns into English and providing texts for `Sound the Bamboo' (1990, 2000).
Her fourth collection, Touch the Earth Lightly was just released by Hope Publishing Company in the summer of 2008. In her previous books, In Every Corner Sing (1992), Every Day in Your Spirit (1996) and Faith Makes the Song (2003), her work appears with settings by many different composers. In the past fifteen years the NZHT has published four collections of new hymns also containing a wide variety of her texts and set by New Zealand composers: Alleluia Aotearoa, Carol Our Christmas, He Came Singing Peace and Faith Forever Singing.
Her hymns and carols address a wide spectrum of themes ranging from the seasons of the Church year to human rights, care of creation, women's concerns and above all, peace. Methodist by upbringing, and ecumenical by persuasion, she has spent most of her life as a Presbyterian. She was married to a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of NZ, the Very Rev. John Stewart Murray, who passed away just recently (2017). She has three sons and six grandchildren, and now lives in active retirement in Paraparaumu Beach.
God Bless Our Land
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God bless our land, in every generation, God bless our people, growing as one nation, God bless our islands, home and whenua, Aotearoa, Aotearoa God give us hope in common cause and caring, each bringing treasures, baskets for ...
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God, Give Me Time
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God, give me time to learn the words I find so hard to say: the loving words, forgiving words that take the sting away; God, give me calm to ride the storm when waves of anger rise, a moment when I grasp a truth my lesser self denies. God, give me...
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God, We Bless You for Our Freedoms
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God, we bless you for our freedoms, liberty of life and thought, liberty from fear and hunger, daily granted, dearly bought, ways that we are free to choose, earth that we are free to use. God, we bless you for the people, prophet people, standing t...
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Good Neighbors, Forgive Us
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Good neighbors, forgive us -- we do not play fair; those marketplace forces determine our share, in trading, in aiding economy's role we've had to exchange dollar notes for our soul. Good neighbors, remind us of just how you toil -- the ...
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Holy Presence, Holy Teacher
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Holy Presence, Holy Teacher, Light illumining our lives in the compass of your wisdom all our work and worship thrives: lead us when we sense your calling till we find our chosen field, following your hand's direction, honor...
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Leftover People in Leftover Places
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Leftover people in leftover places, troubled, disabled, the needy and sad, scavenging crumbs from society's plenty, sick to the soul when their life has gone bad, these are the ones in God's upsidedown kingdom deemed to be worthy and call...
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Make Spaces for Spirit!
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Make spaces for Spirit! For energy rising, for Pentecost presence, the wind and the fire, a new kind of language, a voice and a vision to shift and uplift us, to rouse and inspire. Make spaces f...
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Now a Mighty Tree Has Fallen (Song for Nelson Mandela)
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Now a mighty tree has fallen, now the rainbow loses light, tears of all the world are grieving one who changed the wrong to right:
Give Mandela every honor, all our hearts would wish to say: thanks and blessings on this day!
Celebr...
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Startle Us, God, by the Signs of Your Spirit
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Startle us, God, by the signs of Your Spirit around us! Shake us awake for the thrust of Your Word to astound us! Rattle our doors, give our discomfort no pause, rouse us for work You have found us! Wake us to see where the winds of th...
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