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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.
Forgive Us, God, for All the Things We Waste! (Hymn for a Dollar-Rich Society)
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Forgive us, God for all the things we waste: for time unheeded, talents gone to rust, for roads not taken when they seemed too rough, for good intentions left to gather dust: for thoughtless wasting of Your gifts, forgive the spendthrift way your ...
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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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Life into Life, the Threads Are Woven
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Life into life, the threads are woven, parent and child, partner and friend; tokens of love received and given: joy at each birth, grief at each end. God of all time, all loves, all living, hear as we bring our hearts' thanksgiving. Life i...
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Now Is the Time for a Reckoning (Silent Spring Song)
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Now is the time for a reckoning, now all is flowering and flourishing, God, help your children mindfully listen: soon there may be just a silent spring. Silent the voices in bush and tree, silent the creatures of air and sea, God, help your c...
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O God, We Bear the Imprint of Your Face
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O God, we bear the imprint of your face: the colors of our skin are your design, and what we have of beauty in our race as man or woman, you alone define, who stretched a living fabric on our frame and gave to ...
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Sing with Me, Friends!
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Sing with me, friends, for God invites us, find a new song to resonate! Savor the signs of God around us, beauty that minds and hands create-- celebrate joy, celebrate hope, celebrate this good world! Sing with me, friends, ...
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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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There Is No Small Child - SATB
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; Music by Henry Hinnant
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When at This Table
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When at this table I receive a blessing, the broken bread, the wine of life for me, then let me share the peace with you, my neighbor, and let the Spirit set our spirits free. If at this table I have need of healing, unbidden grief, relationship gone ...
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Where the Light of Easter Day
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Where the light of Easter Day shines through our life, then faith can say, Christ is living, Christ is moving, Christ is changing all the world. Here is God's good kingdom! Where the yeast of love will rise, bubbling with God's new e...
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Wisdom Be Our Guide (Ordinary People)
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Wisdom be our guide: wisdom as in Jesus, strong through storm and crisis, turning terror's tide. Wisdom be our wings: lift the human spirit, banish bomb and bullet, warlord posturings. And with God's help, ordinary people, we ordinary people will t...
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