I usually consider this song as a part of the ‘Nick’s Christmas Gift’ story, mostly because we were staging it in puppet form as a fundraiser when we recorded it, and we played it through the sound system when audience members came up after the show for a meet and greet with the puppets.
I know that the thought of ‘All Creation’ may take on other connotations, if seen as an opposing point of view from ‘here as part of evolution’, but that’s really not really the point. As Einstein said so famously, ‘Either it’s all a miracle, or nothing is a miracle’. The longer I live, the more I realize that indeed, it is all a miracle.
On listening through this song tonight, it was so fun to hear our children and Anca singing along through parts of it, 11 short years ago. Shaelah, on lead, was 15 at the time. Lliam was 13, Thaesha 8, Naidan 3, and Keirah, at 1, was taking it all in.
Because of the Covid situation this year, it turns out that all 5 of our offspring will be under the same roof together for the the next six weeks. It’s a unique and probably never to be repeated experience for us, in that we’re all together again for this much time.
I wrote about this song last year during Advent, when I first began this blog, and you can read about it from then under the same title:
https://www.orbitfriendly.com/site/blog/page/3/
Here as Part of All Creation
https://orbitfriendly.bandcamp.com/track/here-as-part-of-all-creation
1) The nights are long, the stars are clear
Around there is singing and memories are near
Of days gone by, and stories told
Of the birth of an infant, in love to behold
A reason for all in celebration
Ch) I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation
I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation,
We’re here as part of all creation
2) It happens now, we know each day
With truth in the answers we find on the way
We have the strength to cast out fear
The source of our life and our salvation
Ch) I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation
I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation,
We’re here as part of all creation
Br) The words we heard for all are true.
This ‘Peace on Earth’ is what we are meant to do
The light of heaven shines on us now
With a love to make it happen somehow
3) For everyone, in every land,
The words of the angels are now our command
Creation shared is a sacred trust.
The love that’s within us to show that we must
Our guidance in every situation
Ch) I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation
I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation,
We’re here as part of all creation
I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation
I’m glad we’re given this time
And are here as part of all creation,
We’re here as part of all creation
from Winter Songs, released December 15, 2009
Written by David A. Buckley / Lead Vocals by Shaelah Buckley / Supporting Vocals by The Buckley Family © all rights reserved