God of the trackless skies

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  • 1097

God of the trackless skies,
Lord of the Milky Way,
framer of nature’s laws,
maker of night and day:
break through the bounds of space and time
as once you did in Palestine.

2. God of the spinning world,
Lord of the seasons’ change,
guiding the rivers’ flow,
shaping the mountain range:
stretch out your hand on land and sea
as once you did in Galilee.

3. God of the crops and fields,
Lord of our skills and arts,
enter our busy towns,
blessing our homes and hearts:
come, in our lives be born again
as once you came to Bethlehem.

4. God of our hopes and fears,
bearing our sin and shame,
dying to set us free,
knowing us all by name:
show us your grace in victory
as once you did on Easter day.

WORDS © 2011 Exors JENNY WAKELY/PRAISE TRUST
Jenny Wakely 1944-2014

Christ's Lordship Over All of Life - The Earth and Harvest

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Tunes

  • Bulkington
    Metre:
    • 66 66 88
    Composer:
    • Barnard, John
  • Little Cornard
    Little Cornard
    Metre:
    • 66 66 88
    Composer:
    • Shaw, Martin Edward Fallas

The story behind the hymn

‘God of the trackless skies’ seeks to express, and share, Jenny’s own relationship with God, as seen simultaneously in nature, through Scripture and her personal experience of him. The song was first used for the Harvest service at her church in 2012.

A look at the author

Wakely, Jenny

Jenny was born in 1944 in Bexleyheath, Kent and died in 2014.

She attended Prendergast Grammar School in Catford before gaining a BSc and PhD from the University of London.
She worked in medical research for a few years before teaching in Higher Education, more specifically in the area of human anatomy. Jenny was a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leicester and a visiting lecturer at the School of Speech and Language Therapy, De Montfort University, Leicester from 1974–2004. From 1989–2000 she held a joint appointment as Lecturer at the School of Archaeological Studies at the University of Leicester.
Jenny has published various papers and articles in her professional field and has a number of hymns on the Jubilate web-site and two in ‘Worship Live.’
She was a member of Abbots Road URC, Leicester, where she sang in the choir.

Jenny is published by Praise! online at number 1097.