MOUNTAINS

Snippet

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

Scripture

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.

Psalms 36:6

Song

Rocky Mountain High by John Denver

https://youtu.be/FWooDCkkkVQ 

He was born in the summer of his 27th year, coming home to a place 

he'd never been before.

He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again,

you might say he found a key for every door.

When he first came to the mountains, his life was far away on the

 road and hanging by a song.

But the strings already broken and he doesn't really care,

it keeps changing fast, and it don't last for long.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen 

it raining fire in the sky.

The shadows from the starlight are softer than a lullaby.

Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.

He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below,

he saw everything as far as you can see.

And they say that he got crazy once and he tried 

to touch the sun,

and he lost a friend, but kept the memory.

Now he walks in quiet solitude, the forest and the streams, 

seeking grace in every step he takes.

His sight is turned inside himself, to try and understand

the serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen 

it raining fire in the sky.

You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply.

Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.

Now his life is full of wonder, but his heart still 

knows some fear,

of a simple thing he can not comprehend.

Why they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple more,more people, more scars upon the land.

And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I've seen it 

raining fire in the sky.

I know he'd be a poor man if he never saw an eagle fly,

Rocky Mountain high, the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, 

I've seen it raining fire in the sky.

Friends around the campfire and everybody's high

Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.

Rocky Mountain high, Colorado. Rocky Mountain high.

Sentence Prayer

Let us be aware of the source of being

That is common to us all

And to all creatures 

silence

Let us be filled with the presence of the great compassion

towards ourselves and towards all living beings

silence

Realizing that we are all nourished 

from the same form of life,

may we so live that others be not deprived

of air, food, water, shelter, of the chance to live. Amen

The Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia