This is a hymn, with a Shirley Murray text, for musicians and singers and, since the assembly is supposed to sing, for everyone. It was originally written for an ecumenical festival of praise in Wellington in 1988.
She set it to RUSTINGTON by C. Hubert H. Parry. When you go to Hope Publications to find the uplifting words you will see it set to that tune. With the chords they provided they saved me some work and I made this BIAB backing . I wound up the BIAB church organ for this one.
Nothing beats the real thing though:
Alleluia Aotearoa used a setting by Douglas Mews. This time I had to make up some chords for the backing:
As it happens the American Hymn Society used this text for a hymn writing contest some time ago, which is probably why you will find even more than the usual number of settings for sale around the traps. Some of them turned up on You-Tube.
This one is actually RUSTINGTON but neither the author of the text nor the music were acknowledged.