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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.
As the Wind Song Through the Trees
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Shirley Erena Murray
As the wind song through the trees, as the stirring of the breeze, so it is with the Spirit of God, as the heart made strangely warm, as the voice within the storm, so it is with the Spirit of God. Never seen, ever known where this wind has blown br...
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Because You Came
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Shirley Erena Murray
Because you came and sat beside us, because you came and heard us speak, and we ignored you and we refused you, we ask forgiveness, Lord Jesus Christ. Because you laughed and loved the child-like, because you lived...
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From the Waiting Comes the Sign
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Shirley Erena Murray
From the waiting comes the sign -- come, Holy Spirit, come, from the Presence comes the peace -- come, Holy Spirit, come, from the silence comes the song -- come, Holy Spirit, come and be to us, in truth, the sign, the peace...
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God of All Time
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God of all time, all seasons of our living, source of our spark, protector of our flame, blazing before our birth, beyond our dying, God of all time, we come to sing your name. Here in this place, where others have been building, ...
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God of Our Workplace
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God of our workplace, God in our city, stones in our buildings honor your name-- churches and chapels raised to your glory, monuments, blessings, civic acclaim, but where goes the Spirit, where blows the Spirit,...
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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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Shirley Erena Murray
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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LOVING SPIRIT.
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Loving Spirit, loving Spirit, you have chosen me to be -- you have drawn me to your wonder, you have set your sign on me. Like a mother you enfold me, hold my life within your own, feed me with your very body, form me of yo...
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Make Spaces for Spirit!
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Shirley Erena Murray
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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O Beauty Ever Ancient
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Shirley Erena Murray
O beauty ever ancient, O beauty ever new, divine and Holy Presence, my being sings to you, in gratitude, in worship my being sings to you! O beauty in creation, in world of soun...
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Sing as We Go (Drumchapel Hymn)
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Shirley Erena Murray
Sing as we go, all generations sing celebration, let it show! Sing as we grow, find new directions, make new connections, feel the flow: honor the people, lights to the city, faithful year by year, ...
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Something Beautiful for God
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Shirley Erena Murray
Something beautiful for God, in my seeing, in my being, something beautiful for God let the Spirit make of me. Something only I can be, in my choosing or refusing...
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Spirit of Love - SATB
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Shirley Erena Murray
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Allen Pote
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Spirit of Springtime
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Spirit of springtime in creation's garden, tingling the senses, tickling the earth, sap that is rising where the seed was sleeping, push for a new world coming to ...
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Spirit Who Broods, Spirit Who Sings
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Spirit who broods, Spirit who sings, mothering bird, peace in your wings --
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Come from within, come, make us one, come and renew the face of the earth. Spirit of truth, laser and light, searching the p...
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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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The Blessing of Water and Light and Air (Te Moana Blessing)
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Shirley Erena Murray
The blessing of water and light and air, the blessing of earth and its beauty and the time to discover God's world of joy: this blessing be given us all. The blessing of friendship and bread to share, the blessing of music and laughter and t...
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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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Where Is the Miriam, Where Is the Moses?
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Shirley Erena Murray
Where is the Miriam, where is the Moses? Where are the ones who will call, who will lead? Daughters and sons of the Christ evolution, who will bring Gospel command up to speed? Dream as we may, scheme as we may, but raise up new proph...
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Where the Light of Easter Day
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Shirley Erena Murray
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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Wind on the Water
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Shirley Erena Murray
Wind on the water, in the waves of the sea you come, like the Spirit, blowing, lifting and shaping, shifting the sand, none know your way of going. Wind of the Spirit springing up in our lif...
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