COSMIC EMBRACE -Soli Deo Gloria Choir, Colorado Springs, May 4, 2024

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How Great Thou Art
Arr. Dan Forrest.
Sure on this shining night
By Barber
Sure on this shining night
Of star made shadows round,
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground.
The late year lies down the north.
All is healed, all is health.
High summer holds the earth.
Hearts all whole.
Sure on this shining night
I weep for wonder
Wandering far alone
Of shadows on the stars.
On this shining night
Baba Yetu
By Christopher Tin
Baba Yetu literally means
'Our Father,' and is a
Swahili translation of
The Lord's Prayer.
The heavens are telling
By FJ Haydn
The heavens are telling the glory of God,
The wonder of His work displays the firmament.
In all the lands resounds the word.
Never perceived, ever understood,
ever, ever, ever understood.
The heavens are telling the glory of God,
The wonder of His work,
The wonder of His work displays the firmament.
Spark of Creation
By Stephen Schwartz
Children of Eden
By Stephen Schwartz
Like this brief day
My light is nearly gone
But through the night
My children you will go on
You will know heartache
Prayers that don't work
And times of bitter circumstances
But I still believe in second chances
Children of Eden
Where have we left you
Born to uncertainty
Destined for pain
Sins of your parents
Haunt you and test you
This your inheritance
Fire and rain
Children of Eden
Try not to blame us
We were just human to error prone
Children of Eden will you reclaim us
You and your children to come
Someday you'll come home
Children of Eden
Where is our garden
Where is the innocence
We can't reclaim
Once eyes are opened
Must those eyes harden
Lost in the wilderness
Must we remain
Oh my precious children
If you think of us try not to blame us
We were just human to error prone
Children of Eden
You will reclaim us
You and your children to come
Someday you'll come home
Measure Me, Sky
By Jonathan Reid
Measure me, sky!
Tell me I reach by a song
Nearer the stars;
I have been little so long.
Weigh me, high wind!
What will your wild scales record?
Profit of pain,
Joy by the weight of a word.
Horizon, reach out!
Catch at my hands, stretch me taut,
Rim of the world:
Widen my eyes by a thought.
Sky, be my depth,
Wind, be my width and my height,
World, my heart's span;
Loveliness, wings for my flight.
Unfallen World
By Loretta Notareschi
Call it to “space” but the “heavens,”
Not cold but rich with life.
A cosmic ocean full of glory
Spread across the sky.
Here is a world untouched
by evil, pain or greed,
where all people live together
Fated, free in destiny
We are many, rich in difference,
But we speak a truth as one.
We trust the meaning in our lives,
As certain as the sun.
Here is a world untouched
By evil, pain or greed,
Where we trust in all that’s good,
The trust that makes us free.
We walk inside a will;
We live within intent.
We dive into the heart of joy,
The courage of lament.
Call it not “space” but the “heavens.”
Amen.
Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina
By Martini
Domine ad adjuvandum me festina.
O Lord, make haste to help me.
Gloria Patri, et Filio,
Glory be the the Father, and to the Son
Et Spiritui Sancto.
And to the Holy Spirit.
Sicut erat in principio,
As it was in the beginning,
Et nunc, et semper,
And now, and forever,
Et in saecula saeculorum.
And world without end.
Amen.
Alleluia
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Arr. Heather Sorenson
Missa Brevis Pro Serveto
By Stokes
Kyrie eleison,
Lord, have mercy.
Latum mare,
The sea is so great
parva navis.
and my ship is so small.
Kyrie eleison.
Lord, have mercy.
Astra distant,
The stars are far away,
nox frigescit.
and the night is cold.
Kyrie eleison.
Lord, have mercy.
Vita brevis,
My life is short,
spem avemus.
and we hunger for hope.
Kyrie eleison.
Lord, have mercy.
By Night
By Elaine Hagenberg
Deep in the tarn the mountain
A mighty phantom gleamed,
She leaned out into the midnight,
And the summer wind went by,
The scent of the rose
on its silken wing
And a song its sigh.
And, in depths below, the waters
Answered some mystic height,
As a star stooped out
of the depths above
With its lance of light.
And she thought, in the dark
and the fragrance,
How vast was the wonder wrought
If the sweet world
were but the beauty born
In its Maker’s thought.
If you arrived here, thank you for sharing this musical experience with us!
Your Soli Deo Gloria Choir