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SPIRITSONG

Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jane Marshall Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 33325 31234 65223 Used With Text: Let My Spirit Always Sing

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 7.7.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Let my spirit always sing, though my heart be wintering, though the season of despair give no sign that you are there, God to whom my days belong, let there always be a song. 2 Though my body be confined, let your word engage my mind, let the inner eye discern how much more there is to learn, see the world becoming whole through the window of the soul. 3 Let your wisdom grace my years, choose my words and chase my fears, give me wit to welcome change, to accept, and not estrange, let my joy be full and deep in the knowledge that I keep. 4 Let my spirit always sing, to your Spirit answering, through the silence, through the pain know my hope is not in vain, like a feather on your breath trust your love, through life and death. Topics: Confession, Lament, and Healing; Aging; Centring; Christian Year Advent; Christian Year Lent; Discernment; God Presence; Healing; Health/Wellness; Hope; Joy; Nurture; Service Music Confession; Service Music Response / Affirmation; Trust; Winter Scripture: Psalm 31:15 Used With Tune: SPIRITSONG

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Let My Spirit Always Sing

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: Sing a New Creation #72 (2022) Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Topics: Aging; Faith; Hope; Lament; Praise; Trust Languages: English Tune Title: SPIRITSONG

Let My Spirit Always Sing

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Hymnal: More Voices #83 (2007) Meter: 7.7.7 D Lyrics: 1 Let my spirit always sing, though my heart be wintering, though the season of despair give no sign that you are there, God to whom my days belong, let there always be a song. 2 Though my body be confined, let your word engage my mind, let the inner eye discern how much more there is to learn, see the world becoming whole through the window of the soul. 3 Let your wisdom grace my years, choose my words and chase my fears, give me wit to welcome change, to accept, and not estrange, let my joy be full and deep in the knowledge that I keep. 4 Let my spirit always sing, to your Spirit answering, through the silence, through the pain know my hope is not in vain, like a feather on your breath trust your love, through life and death. Topics: Confession, Lament, and Healing; Aging; Centring; Christian Year Advent; Christian Year Lent; Discernment; God Presence; Healing; Health/Wellness; Hope; Joy; Nurture; Service Music Confession; Service Music Response / Affirmation; Trust; Winter Scripture: Psalm 31:15 Languages: English Tune Title: SPIRITSONG

People

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Jane Marshall

1924 - 2019 Composer of "SPIRITSONG" in More Voices Jane Marshall, was born Jane Anne Manton in Dallas in 1924. She became a pianist and organist and composed music as a teenager. She earned a music degree in 1945 from SMU. She married Elbert Marshall. She went on to write more than 200 hymns and other sacred music works. She later earned a Masters degree in 1968 from SMU in choral conducting and composition. She taught at SMU's Perkins School of Theology and tis Church Music Summer School from 1975-2010. She attended Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas for many years, collaborated often with other hymn writers, and encouraged many students. Dianne Shapiro, from UM News article , May 30, 2019 by Sam Hodges (accessed 6-7-2019)

Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Author of "Let My Spirit Always Sing" in More Voices 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