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Ian Sowton

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Deep Life All Abounding

Deep life all aboundingwhose voice goes on soundingthe word of creation through space;your love still is schoolingprime stars in their moving,and new worlds unfurl in

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God’s love bursts into bloom

God’s love bursts into bloomdeep in the dark’s lament,and fills a startled tombwith lively, gracious scent;the stone gives way, death’s head is bruisedand dawn reveals

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A Song

A Song that wraps up memories        in rare expensive silkthat charms hurt hearts to bloom        deep red again with trustsing me such a song        such a song that

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Holy Trinity Psalter

Inclusive language paraphrases of the Psalms by Ian Sowton, Holy Trinity Community, 2005. Forward This is not a new translation of the Psalms.  It is a

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Hymn for Easter

God’s love bursts into bloomdeep in the dark’s lament,and fills a startled tombwith lively, gracious scent;the stone gives way, death’s head is bruisedand dawn reveals

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