Flower Festival - "Creation"

Togetherness in care for the natural world

Flower arrangements by St. Mary's Church, Gillingham

Quelle est cette odeur agreable?
Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing
que ravit tous nos sens?
Stealing our senses all away?

Dieu tout puissant, gloire eternalle vous soit rendue
Jusqu'aux cieux; que la paix soit universelle,
Que la grace abonde en tous lieux.

Praise to the Lord of all creation,
Glory to God the fount of grace.
May peace abide in every nation
Good will in men of every race.

A.B. Ramsay / David Willcocks

For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth,
Over and around us lies.

Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.

F.S. Pierpoint 1835-1917

To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to reap.

Ecclesiastes ch.3

How wonderful O Lord are the works of your hands! The heavens declare your glory, the arch of the sky displays your handiwork. In your love you have given us the power to behold the beauty of your world in all its splendour.

from a Jewish prayer