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Murray, Shirley Erena
Shirley Erena Murray
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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.
And Jesus Said
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And Jesus said: don't be afraid-- I've come to turn your fear to hope, I've come to take you through the deep, to be your friend until the end, and give your troubled heart to sleep. And Jesus said: don't...
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Christ Jesus, in Your Name
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Christ Jesus, in your name this Church is built and blessed: here is our welcome place, our busy world addressed, and through these doors we gladly come to worship you and find a home. Good ...
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Come, in Our Dark Time
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Come, in our dark time when spirits are desolate, come, Word of life, to our trauma and our tears, grow in us courage to deal with our brokenness, hold us, enfold us in faith beyond our fears. Move us to know that a new life awaits us, lead us to ...
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Follow the Way
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Follow the Way, the way of the Cross, go where the footsteps lead, follow the way of sorrow and loss, love is its crime and creed. ...
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In the Quiet of This Day
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In the quiet of this day, in the safety of this place, Holy Presence, hear me pray, soothe my spirit with your peace. Take the tangle of my thought, take the tension from my frame, free within me what is fraught, still the...
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Little One, Born to Bring
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Little one, born to bring us such love, little one, wrapped around by our prayer, given and taken, lighting our life, now we return you into God's care. Hold us, dear God, as this child is held close to your heart, to comf...
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Lord, Turn Our Grieving into Grace
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Lord, turn our grieving into grace, another way of being, learning what others have to face, another way of seeing; Lord, by the sharing of the pain, lift up the stone that weighs us down. G...
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Nothing, Nothing in All Creation (Hope Is Our Song)
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Refrain: Nothing, nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God. This is our faith: trouble may break us, grief overtake us, sickness and death, this is our creed: ...
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O God, Our God, Disabled God
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O God, our God, disabled God, your love shines through a human face, your broken body crippled, scarred, your risen life our truth and grace. Turn our impairment into power and use our lives to serve you best, the strength...
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What Have We Done to You? (Good Friday Lament)
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What have we done to you? What have we done to you? What, in the name of God and justice blots out the sun for you? Here, at the Cross where you are dying, what have your people done to you...
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When at This Table
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Shirley Erena Murray
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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When at This Table - SATB
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Allen Pote
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When Human Voices Cannot Sing
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When human voices cannot sing and human hearts are breaking, we bring our grief to you, O God, who knows our inner aching. Set free our spirits from all fear -- the cloud of dark unknowing, and let the light, the Christ-light show...
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