Dear Mother God, your wings are warm around us

Dear Mother God, your wings are warm around us. Janet Wootton* (1952- ). This was first published in Hymns and Congregational Songs vol. 2 no. 3 (1991), and then in Reflecting Praise (1993). It has also appeared in VU, and in Come Celebrate , edited by Michael Saward* (2009). The text is from Deuteronomy 32: 11 and Isaiah 40: 13, and was originally in the first person singular (‘your wings are warm around me’). The words are written from the perspective of the young eagle in the nest, and the remembered experience of the nest allows the believer to offer hope and comfort to others in an unpredictable world. The tune WINGS was commissioned from Sue Mitchell-Wallace for these words. Andrew...