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You have selected: I AM GOD'S CHILD (words by Shirley Erena Murray) from the Ron Klusmeier Anthology. Subscribers may download arrangements using the links in the right hand column. Log in at left (first link beneath "The Catalogue") to activate the columns on the right.

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Lyrics:

I am God’s child,
ugly and beautiful,
wayward and dutiful,
free to run wild,
I am God’s child.

I am God’s joke,
played for the sport in me,
laughter’s retort in me,
born to provoke,
I am God’s joke.

I am God’s cross,
fruit of creation’s pain,
blessing and fearful bane,
proof, paradox,
I am God’s cross.

I am God’s sign,
hopeful humanity
touched with divinity,
learning to shine,
I am God’s sign.

Author / Composer Comments

• Author Shirley Erena Murray, from her book Every Day in Your Spirit (Hope Publishing Co., 1996, No. 13): “I did not intend this to be a ‘regular’ hymn. It is an attempt to express the human paradox.”