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Take My Gifts
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Take my gifts and let me love you
Take My Gifts
TALAVERA TERRACE
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Colin Gibson Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55555 56532 33333 Used With Text: Take My Gifts
TALAVERA TERRACE
Take My Gifts and Let Me Love You
Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Hymnal: Community of Christ Sings #609 (2013) Lyrics: 1 Take my gifts and let me love you,
God who first of all loved me,
gave me light and food and shelter,
gave me life and set me free,
now because your love has touched me,
I have love to give away,
now the bread of love is rising,
loaves of love to multiply!
2 Take the fruit that I have gathered
from the tree your Spirit sowed,
harvest of your own compassion,
juice that makes the wine of God,
spiced with humor, laced with laughter–
flavor of the Jesus life,
tang of risk and new adventure,
taste and zest beyond belief.
3 Take whatever I can offer—
gifts that I have yet to find,
skills that I am slow to sharpen,
talents of the hand and mind,
things made beautiful for others
in the place where I must be:
take my gifts and let me love you,
God who first of all loved me. Topics: Abundance; Communion; Compassion; Generosity; Giftedness; Giving; God's Love; Gratitude Scripture: Psalm 96:3-6 Languages: English Tune Title: DECATUR
Take My Gifts and Let Me Love You
Take My Gifts and Let Me Love You
Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #670 (2010) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Lyrics: 1 Take my gifts and let me love You,
God who first of all loved me,
gave me light and food and shelter,
gave me life and set me free.
Now because Your love has touched me,
I have love to give away,
now the bread of love is rising,
loaves of love to multiply.
2 Take the fruit that I have gathered
from the tree Your Spirit sowed,
harvest of Your own compassion,
juice that makes the wine of God,
spiced with humor, laced with laughter--
flavor of the Jesus life,
tang of risk and new adventure,
taste and zest beyond belief.
3 Take whatever I can offer--
gifts that I have yet to find,
skills that I am slow to sharpen,
talents of the hand and mind,
things made beautiful for others
in the place where I must be:
take my gifts and let me love You,
God who first of all loved me. Topics: The Church on Mission Stewardship; Love for God; Stewardship; Thankfulness and Thanksgiving Languages: English Tune Title: MADILL
Take My Gifts and Let Me Love You
Take my gifts
Author: Shirley Murray Hymnal: Alleluia Aotearoa #127 (1999) First Line: Take my gifts and let me love you Topics: Commitment; Love; Money/Offering; Personal Worth Languages: English Tune Title: TALAVERA TERRACE
Take my gifts
Shirley Erena Murray
1931 - 2020 Author of "Take My Gifts and Let Me Love You" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal 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
Shirley Erena Murray
Aubrey L. Butler
b. 1933 Person Name: A. L. Butler Composer of "MADILL" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal BUTLER, A. L. (Pete) (b. 1933): B.M., Oklahoma Baptist University. M.S.M. Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, KY. D.C.M. (Hon.), Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO. Minister of Music, First Baptist Church, Ada, OK. Retired Professor of Church Music, Midwestern Baptist Seminary, Kansas City, MO. Published works include children's and adult anthems and hymn tunes. Member, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers).
A. L. Butler (from In Melody and Song, Darcey Press, 2014)
Aubrey L. Butler
Colin Gibson
b. 1933 Composer of "TALAVERA TERRACE" in Chalice Hymnal Colin Gibson (b. 1933) was born in Dunedin, the south island of New Zealand. He has been writing hymn texts and hymn settings for over 20 years. His works have been published and performed in Africa, the United States, Asia and Australasia, Great Britain and Europe. He is organist and director of the Mornington Methodist Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand, a lay preacher, and retired in 1999 as Head of the Department and Donald Collie Professor of English at the University of Otago where he currently heads the Department of Theatre Studies and continues to lecture on English Literature as Emeritus Professor. He has conducted numerous hymn workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and has been co-editor of a number of hymn collections. His frequent collaboration with Shirley Erena Murray is represented in several Hope publications, and he has his own published collections of hymns: Singing Love (Collins) and more recently Reading the Signature (Hope, 1994 - Code #1753) and Songs for a Rainbow People (Hope, 1998 - Code #8005). Three of his hymns are included in the Hope hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001).
--www.hopepublishing.com
Colin Gibson
