Weaver God
Hymn No 25 in the hymns section on this website
To the tune Noël Nouvelet used for “Now the green blade riseth”
Weaver-God, Creator, sets life on the loom,
draws out threads of colour from primordial gloom.
Wise in designing, in the weaving deft:
love and justice joined – the fabric’s warp and weft.
Called to be co-weavers, yet we break the thread
and may smash the shuttle and the lock, instead.
Careless and greedy, we deny by theft
love and justice joined – the fabric’s warp and weft.
Weaver-God, great Spirit, may we see your face
tapestried in trees, in waves, and winds of space;
tenderness teach us, lest we be bereft
of love and justice joined – the fabric’s warp and weft.
Weavers we are called, yet woven too we’re born,
For the web is seamless: if we tear, we’re torn.
Gently may we live – that fragile Earth be left
with love and justice joined – the fabric’s warp and weft.
Author: Kate Compston
Kate Compston has given us permission to print it here. It is printed in the Unitarian hymn book, ‘Sing Your Faith’ – number 199 – So please credit that, if sending a note of what hymns you use in a service.
The tune: Listen to it here: Noël Nouvelet –
See interesting background to this traditional French carol tune
Oxford Book of Carols, No. 149.
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Comments on "Weaver God"
Elaine Hinchcliff:
Touches God deep within me. Thank you.
Sheila Hamil:
This poem is amazing! Please thank Kate for this timely poem. It was only yesterday I began publishing my book, one chapter a day, on my Facebook, and I was just saying that to remove my faith from my life would be akin to removing the threads of warp and weft from a weaving. It would be a disaster and an utter failure. This poem is a wonderful confirmation of that! Also I've been trying to contact Kate for copyright permission to print one of her other poems for a VJ day service I'm leading in August. CTBI have given their permission, but Zondervan haven't replied yet. Could you perhaps connect me with Kate for her direct permission please? Many thanks Sheila
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