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Author: Shirley Erena Murray Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How shall we find you, God who is Holy, captured by gender, color and code? How shall we worship, God of the Presence, action and essence, meaning and mode? 2 How shall we know you, God who is Wisdom, argued by scholars, proofed on a page: how to imagine, God of creation, world beyond thinking, here on our stage? 3 How shall we trust you, God in the scriptures, filtered through lenses, biased and blurred: how to revere you, God of tradition, cased in our churches, Word bound to word? 4 How shall we see you if not in people knit to your nature, focused in sight: angels and artists, teachers and healers, heart-and-soul people, children of light. 5 How shall we love you if not as human, loving us wholly, fleshed on our frame, known to our hunger, known in the meeting spirit to Spirit, naming our name. Topics: Opening of Worship Used With Tune: [How shall we find you]

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[How shall we find you]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: I-to Loh Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 53223 53132 52112 Used With Text: How shall we find you

EVENING HYMN

Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Appears in 16 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: David Haas, 1957- Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 12325 67115 67131 Used With Text: How Shall We Find You

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How shall we find you

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Global Praise 3 #5 (2004) Lyrics: 1 How shall we find you, God who is Holy, captured by gender, color and code? How shall we worship, God of the Presence, action and essence, meaning and mode? 2 How shall we know you, God who is Wisdom, argued by scholars, proofed on a page: how to imagine, God of creation, world beyond thinking, here on our stage? 3 How shall we trust you, God in the scriptures, filtered through lenses, biased and blurred: how to revere you, God of tradition, cased in our churches, Word bound to word? 4 How shall we see you if not in people knit to your nature, focused in sight: angels and artists, teachers and healers, heart-and-soul people, children of light. 5 How shall we love you if not as human, loving us wholly, fleshed on our frame, known to our hunger, known in the meeting spirit to Spirit, naming our name. Topics: Opening of Worship Languages: English Tune Title: [How shall we find you]

How Shall We Find You

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Hymnal: Community of Christ Sings #10 (2013) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D First Line: How shall we find you Lyrics: 1 How shall we find you, God who is Holy, captured by gender, color, and code? How shall we worship, God of the Presence, action and essence, meaning and mode? 2 How shall we know you, God who is Wisdom, argued by scholars, proofed on a page: how to imagine, God of Creation, worlds beyond thinking, here on our stage? 3 How shall we trust you, God in the scriptures, filtered through lenses, biased and blurred: how to revere you, God of Tradition, cased in our churches, Word bound to word? 4 How shall we see you if not in people knit to your nature, focused in sight— angels and artists, teachers and healers, heart-and-soul people, children of light. 5 How shall we love you if not as human, loving us wholly, fleshed on our frame, known to our hunger, known in the meeting spirit to Spirit, naming our name. Topics: Contemplation; Discernment; God Mystery of; God's Presence; Seeking; Spirituality Scripture: Psalm 27:7-9 Languages: English Tune Title: EVENING HYMN

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Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Author of "How Shall We Find You" in Community of Christ Sings Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago