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All Through Your Life
$0.00 or moreAll Through Your LifeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of All Through the Night. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Dear Beloved, God will bless you all through your life, Love's own gentle hand caress you, all through your life. You are made by God's designing, with the holy Presence shining. Grace will be your silver lining all through your life. Journey hand in hand with Jesus all through your life. Walk with him who heals and frees us all through your life. Like him may you be forgiving, generous and freely giving. Risen, new, receive your living, all through your life. May the Holy Spirit lead you all through your life, guide, protect, renew and feed you all through your life. In the light of our redeeming, with divine compassion gleaming, be a light for others, beaming all through your life. -
Anna and Simeon’s Song
$3.00 or moreAnna and Simeon’s SongAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Luke 2.25-38. For congregation or solo (or duet). [Hear it in the Product Description below.]
Lyrics: Today I held in my trembling hands such a child so pure: a gift of grace, God’s human face, love so tenderly given. Wonder! Wonder! How God’s promise is sure! Fears cease in hope and peace: earth has now become heaven. Today I saw with my wondering eyes such a child divine! My heart sang out for all about shone the light of the Near One. Wonder! Wonder! That this joy could be mine. Jesus has come to us, the Beloved, the Dear one. Today you’ll meet in a simple way such a Presence, a Friend: the Gentle One refuses none with God’s tender salvation. Wonder! Wonder! Miracle without end! Praise, pray and everyday bow in deep adoration. -
As the Darkness, Soft, Descending
$0.00 or moreAs the Darkness, Soft, DescendingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of All Through the Night. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As the darkness, soft, descending, wraps us in night, God, with gentle love unending, you hold us tight. As we sleep you closely tend us, bless, forgive, renew and mend us, from all fear and toil defend us, as your delight. Silence now, with all its graces, wraps us in prayer, as your presence, deep, embraces each soul with care. Now to you our lives we render, trusting you, all-wise and tender. May our sleep, our dear surrender be, Love, our prayer. -
Bearers of Light
$0.00 or moreBearers of LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, how you love us, hold us and bless us, reign from above us, lead us by hand Call us to healing, bound by your Promise, your Word revealing, by your command. Great holy giver of life and wonder, deep like a river your blessings flow. Gladly we give you praise and thanksgiving: gifts we will give wherever we go. Baptized, anointed, filled with your Spirit, we are appointed bearers of light: for liberation, servants of justice, bringing the nations joy and delight. -
Becoming Whole
$3.00 or moreBecoming WholeAdd to cartOriginal song. Several verses may be used, or one verse repeated. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: We are a broken people becoming whole again. We are a wounded people being healed again. We are a hungry people being fed again. We are a wandering people coming home again. We are a groaning people giving birth again. ... And more... -
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
$0.00 or moreBenedictus (Song of Zechariah)Add to cartLuke 1.68-79. Original lyrics set to the tune of Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.
Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Blessed be the God of Israel! You came among us to redeem. You have raised a mighty savior for us, as the prophets used to dream. As you promised, you have saved us, so that we may serve with grace, unafraid, with holy spirits, in your presence all our days. You, child, go before our God as prophet: show the people mercy’s way, so they know they are forgiven, saved and brought into a brand new day. Day is dawning—tender mercy! Grace and light of God, increase! Come to those in death and shadows. Guide us in the ways of peace. -
Blessed
$3.00 or moreBlessedAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Includes version for four-part choir.
Lyrics: Dear God, receive me anew, mourning and poor in my soul, hungry for what makes me whole. Bless me by making me simple like you.
Refrain: Blessed are the ones who have nothing but God, for God and God alone shall fill their lives.
Mercy please grant me anew. Make my heart pure by your grace, humble, that I may see your face. Bless me by making me gentle like you. Refrain.
Courage please give me anew, peace in the world to make, and to suffer for your Gospel’s sake. Bless me by making me faithful to you. Refrain. -
Blessed Be Our God (Luke 1.68-79)
$3.00 or moreBlessed Be Our God (Luke 1.68-79)Add to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. Benedictus, the Song of Zechariah (Luke 1.68-79). Hear an audio excerpt in the Product Description below. Lyrics: Blessed be our God, who's come to us, raising a mighty savior for us, as of old God promised, to save us from the enemies of life, freeing us to serve in holiness. Serve, child as a prophet of our God, going before to make a way: go to all the people; show them their salvation from God, show them the forgiveness of their sin. By the tender mercy of our God, dawn from on high will break upon us, giving light to people who sit in darkness and the shade of death, guiding us into the way of peace. -
Blessing Songs
$0.00 or moreBlessing SongsAdd to cartThese are one- or two-verse songs for the congregation to sing to each other at the close of a service, set to various familiar hymn tunes. -
Child of God
$3.00 or moreChild of GodAdd to cartOriginal song. May be sung repeatedly in the style of Taizé. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: I'm a child, a child of God, God's beloved, in whom God is pleased. I am held in the arms of God. -
Christ Our Healer
$0.00 or moreChrist Our HealerAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Joyful, Joyful. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ, our healer, you have touched us, reaching through the dark divide, healing broken hearts and bodies, casting death's old shroud aside: raised us from our bed of sorrows, put your arm around our pain, raising us to new tomorrows, bringing us to life again. Christ, our teacher, in our healing you have given us your gift: grace to bless, your love revealing, pow'r to heal and hope to lift. In your Spirit, your forgiveness, your compassion we embrace ev'ry wounded, shamed or silenced child of God with gentle grace. Christ, our savior, you are going on to every town and field, on to every land and people, on until the world is healed. Use us in the whole world's mending, use us as your healing hands, 'till as one the world, made whole, takes up its mat with joy and stands. -
Dear Gentle, Watchful Shepherd
$0.00 or moreDear Gentle, Watchful ShepherdAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of O Sacred Head Now Wounded. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Dear gentle, watchful shepherd, you lead us as we graze, and guide, us when we wander, to find again your ways. And when we stray in darkness, alone and lost and weak, unseen, you still are with us, your dear ones whom you seek. We pray for those who struggle through life all on their own, who find no path to guide them, who think they are alone. You fold them in your mercy in every lonely place, and with your hand upon them you bless them with your grace. O lead us, loving shepherd to seek the last and lost, to love them with your passion, and serve at any cost. Send us to find the lonely, forgotten and ignored: it's there that we shall meet you, our saving, healing Lord. -
Fulfill Your Love In Me
$3.00 or moreFulfill Your Love In MeAdd to cartOriginal song. A prayerful invitation for God to love through us. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Refrain: Fulfill your love in me, O Loving Spirit, fulfill your love in me, O Heart of Love. Verses: Speak the name Beloved in my deepest soul. Hold me in your heart, your gentle loving. Heal me with your mercy and your tenderness. Bring to life the grace in me to love you. Give me grace to love my neighbor as myself, freely, with the love with which you love me. -
God of the Future
$0.00 or moreGod of the FutureAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: SLANE (Be Thou My Vision)
Lyrics: God of our dark night, and God of our day, God of our journey, whose will is our way, when our path dims and the future’s unknown, still you walk with us; we’re never alone.
Though the familiar should fade and turn strange, your steady love for us never will change. So when we worry and can’t see the way Love, still your grace is enough for today.
All that is taken and all that we lose, all of the cost of the path that we choose never compares with the grace you impart: faithful and gracious, you give us your heart.
Bless all the journeys we still are to make. May they shed mercy and light for your sake Lead us with courage on journeys unknown, walking in blessing, and never alone.
Be our companion, our courage, our nerve, You, the heart in us, to love and to serve. Blessings you promise, whatever befall. Still you walk with us, O lover of all. -
Harvest of Your Grace
$3.00 or moreHarvest of Your GraceAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
[Dialogue between soloist and congregation. Also includes Eucharistic responses.]
(Hear an audio clip in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: 1. God scatters abroad, and gives to the poor, and fills the hungry with good things. Alleluia! O God, we rejoice in the harvest of your grace. 2. How blessed the poor, and all those that mourn. “You do to me as to them.” Alleluia! We offer our gifts for the harvest of your grace. 3. Now come to the Feast. Our cups overflow. With grateful hearts we remember. Alleluia! We come now to work in the harvest of your grace. 4. God’s grace will abound, in seed and in bread. In joy then sow as you reap. Alleluia! God, gather from us the harvest of your grace. 5. You will receive, so that you can give, and yield a harvest of good hearts. Alleluia! God send us to share the harvest of your grace. -
How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
$3.00 or moreHow Lovely Is Your Dwelling PlaceAdd to cartOriginal song. Psalm 84. A dialogue between cantor/leader and congregation. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Congregation: How lovely is your dwelling place. We find a home in you, O God. Even the sparrow finds a place in the perfect sanctuary of your grace. Cantor: 1. My soul cries out to be with you. My heart and flesh sing out to you. Our love is in you. 2. Blessed are they who live in you, who put their trust in you alone. Our hope is in you. 3. You bless your pilgrims on their way. You turn our hearts to living springs. Our strength is in you. 4. A day within your house, O God, is better than a year without. Our joy is in you. 5. I'll be a servant in your house, rather than riches on my own. Our heart is in you. 6. There's nothing good that you withhold from those who live each day in you. Our home is in you. -
Lead Me, My Shepherd
$0.00 or moreLead Me, My ShepherdAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Be Thou My Vision. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Lead me, my shepherd, in paths that you show. Not by my own will, but yours, may I go. By the still waters of baptism’s grace dear God, renew me, and show me your face. God, may your rod and your staff be my guide. Even in death’s shadow walk by my side. Help me to listen, to trust and obey, going wherever you show me the way. God, in the face of my fears you provide, bidding me dine with my foes at my side. Lead me, wherever my path in life goes, trusting your mercy, that grace overflows. Dearest companion of blessing and weal, you who provide and forgive me and heal, still now, I listen and wait for what’s true: your voice that leads me to life, and to you. -
O Faithful God
$0.00 or moreO Faithful GodAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: Finlandia
Lyrics: O faithful God, whose steadfast love is sure, O Loving Father, Mother kind and strong: your Covenant forever will endure; you bind us to your heart our whole life long. No matter how rebellious is your child, in you we are brought home and reconciled
You hold us, God, in kinship with each other. We have been loved and held when we would run. We all are siblings, all born of one Mother; though we would flee, you join us all as one. Our deepest wounds come from our deepest love, and so our highest hope for life above.
So teach us God, to bravely love each other, for all belong within your house of grace, to give our enemy, who is our brother, our steadfast mercy, and a wide embrace; for in our love, though we be right or wrong, we know the grace to which we all belong. -
Peace, Peace, Peace
$0.00 or morePeace, Peace, PeaceAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Still, Still, Still. Includes music for two flutes. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Peace, peace, peace. God grant you peace, my friends. The Christ child comes, so sweet and tender. Greet him with your trust and wonder. Peace, peace, peace, God be with you, my friends. Love, love, love, love light your way, my friends. Here at the manger humbly kneeling; gladly going, serving, healing. Love, love, love, love light your way, my friends. -
Psalm 23
$0.00 or morePsalm 23Add to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Be Thou My Vision. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God is my shepherd; I have all I need. God makes me lie down in green pastures to feed. By the still waters God gently will lead. Love, you're my shepherd. I have all I need. Yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I fear not, for you are as close as my breath. For you are with me, your staff and your rod they are my comfort, my shepherd, my God. You set my table before all my foes. You pour out your blessing; my cup overflows. Goodness shall hold me wherever I roam, and I will live with you, my Heart, my Home. -
Sacred Place
$0.00 or moreSacred PlaceAdd to cartA song about ministry, but also ideal for the dedication or blessing of a sanctuary, worship spaced or church building. Original lyrics set to the tune of Ode to Joy. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, creator of the heavens, earth and everything that lives, this world is your home, and shines with glory that your presence gives. Christ, your living sanctuary, he in whom you lived in love, is for us our healing shelter and our home with you above. It is not the objects here that make this church a holy place, but your spirit and our worship, gifts no treasures can replace. May this place give sacred shelter, welcome all who seek your face, heal and strengthen hearts for service, be the home of light and grace. Send us from this sanctuary out into the world you bless; let this be the center of a growing ring of love and grace. Let this be the nest from which your Holy Spirit takes its flight. Make us all your sanctuary, bearing to the world your light. -
Sleeper, Awake
$3.00 or moreSleeper, AwakeAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Ephesians 5.14. May be sung once or repeated in the style of Taize. (Listen to it in the Product Description below.) -
Steadfast Love
$0.00 or moreSteadfast LoveAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of This Is My father's World. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God of faithful love, in every time and land, the human race with tender grace you hold in gentle hands. So may we love as well, with gracious tenderness: the love you give we too will live, and thus our faith confess. To those who cause us hurt, when anger calls our name, we show the face of loving grace, for you treat us the same. O God, you know our flaws, yet you forgive and heal; and may we so, to friend and foe, your steadfast love reveal. ** Concluding blessing verse for the end of the service: Now go in peace, my friends, with God’s deep love in you, God’s gentleness, God’s will to bless in all you say and do. Go forth in Christ to serve, go forth, beloved friends, still bound in prayer and loving care until we meet again. -
The Heart of Heaven
$3.00 or moreThe Heart of HeavenAdd to cartOriginal song. A song of encouragement. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: There’s a heart in heaven that knows you, and speaks your name in love from heaven’s throne, that has laughed and labored here beside you, and says, “I know your journey as my own.” There are eyes in heaven that adore you, and weep with joy at the beauty of your soul, for they see the courage of your living, and share your deepest yearnings to be whole. There’s a tear in heaven that remembers, there’s a deep, weary sigh that understands; there are gentle, wounded hands that know the struggle to do the work of God with human hands. There’s a voice from heaven within you, a spring of life-giving water flowing free. Let it flow, let grace and peace shine in you with heaven’s loveliness for all to see. Oh, the heart of heaven is within you, the universe embraces you in love, for the humble One who walks beside you is the One who rules the sun and stars above. -
This Is Our Mother’s World
$0.00 or moreThis Is Our Mother’s WorldAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of ThIs My father's World. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As a mother in her love surrounds her own with care, God gives us birth and life and earth and grace beyond compare. This is our Mother’s world; her grace is everywhere, each person blest, held to her breast, enfolded in her care. As a mother, wise and kind, leads children day by day, God holds us near so we can hear the voice that guides our way. This is our Mother’s world, and so our gifts we bring, to freely share her loving care, and praises gladly sing. One-verse Offertory version: As a mother in her love surrounds her own with care, God gives us birth and life and earth and grace beyond compare. This is our Mother’s world, and so our gifts we bring, to freely share her loving care, and praises gladly sing. -
Three Strangers
$0.00 or moreThree StrangersAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of I Come with Joy (DOVE OF PEACE). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Three strangers came to Abraham and Sarah in their age, and told them God had plans for them, a promise to engage, a promise to engage. So Sarah laughed and Abraham, he knit his furrowed brow: “How could this come to us?” he said, “How could this happen now? How could this happen now?” So God appears and promises new life for us as well, and gives us joy so that we laugh. Such happy news to tell! Such happy news to tell! God promises new life in us, and love and joy to bear, and gives us gifts and blessings dear, the grace of God to share, the grace of God to share. -
We Lift Our Spirits Up
$0.00 or moreWe Lift Our Spirits UpAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of SURSUM CORDA, ... or Abide with Me... or Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: We lift our spirits up to you, O God, O Love, our morning sun, our living breath. You are our first and final dwelling, God: receive our prayers, receive our life and death. Our grateful thanks we give you for your care that bears us through the challenges we face, for nothing we desire can compare with your compassion and your healing grace. O God, we open wide our longing soul: breathe into us your mercy and delight. We give to you all that we would control, make us pure vessels of your love and light.