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Darkness
Suggested Price: $0.00DarknessAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Conditor Alme or Tallis' Canon.Hear an audio sample in the product description. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: The darkness is a covering to hide the questions that I bring. God bless me even in the night to bring my love into the light. The darkness is where fears may hide, but help me, God, to look inside. Give me the courage, Love, to face my demons with your saving grace. The darkness is a mystery, the way that is unclear to me. Yet God, you lead me by the hand to journey toward a promised land. The darkness is a place of rest, where I may sleep and be your guest until the rising of the sun. I rest in you, O Loving One. Amen. -
Feast On Mercy
Suggested Price: $3.00Feast On MercyAdd to cartOriginal song. A dialogue between congregation and song leader. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: May not my comfort cloud my eyes to see the needy at my door. But, poor in spirit, may I rise, and feast on mercy with the poor. Poor Christ, I confess: I cling to all I posses. With grace, open my eyes to see the poor who bear your image to my door. My my privilege and place not blind me to my need for grace. With empty hands I come, for I am sure with grace, O God, you feed the poor. As one who by your hand is fed I hunger now to share your bread, to see that justice for the poor is done, for at your table we are one. -
God of Mercy
Suggested Price: $3.00God of MercyAdd to cartOriginal song. Final line may be used as a repeating chant: "By your grace I shall live." (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: God of mercy, you forgive me, may I myself forgive. Now confessing, I ask your blessing. By your grace I shall live. God, heal my sin, brokenness deep within. Too often I bear pain I make others share. Set me free from what I have been. You are gentle with me; gentle I learn to be. You touch me and heal; deep in my soul I feel burdens gone, and I am free. -
God of the Day and Night
Suggested Price: $0.00God of the Day and NightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Fairest Lord Jesus (ST. ELIZABETH). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God of the day and night, thank you for the gift of light, thank you for darkness, for times of rest. Now at the end of day, as we together pray we are in you, held close and blessed . All that we've done today, thought or spoke or hoped or prayed, now to your tenderness we release. All of our sins forgive, that we in faith may live in perfect love and trust and peace. Praise God, this gentle night. Praise you, God of love and light. Praise, brother Christ, Savior, teacher, friend. Praise to the Spirit! May we inherit your love and grace 'till time shall end. -
God We Are Broken
Suggested Price: $0.00God We Are BrokenAdd 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, we are broken, for all flesh is weak. Grant us the healing and peace that we seek. For all that pains us, beyond our control, grant us your healing, our bodies made whole. God, we are broken; our hearts are not one. Sometimes it seems that our souls come undone. Bring us renewal and calm in our soul. Grant us your healing and make our hearts whole. God, we are broken: for families and friends suffer when love fails and faithfulness ends. May your forgiveness and grace play its role. Grant us your healing; make covenants whole. God, we are broken, for many are poor, and we ignore those who lie by our door. God, may your justice like great rivers roll. Grant us your healing; make all people whole. God, we are broken for hate and all war wound us so we are not free anymore. Make us one people from pole to pole. Grant us your healing, and make the world whole. -
God, Be Merciful to Me
Suggested Price: $3.00God, Be Merciful to MeAdd to cartOriginal song. A simple plea for mercy, can be used as a repeating chant. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: God, be merciful to me. With empty hands and open, I turn to you for mercy. -
God, You Have Searched Me
Suggested Price: $0.00God, You Have Searched MeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Be Thou My Vision. Based on Ps. 139 and Ps. 51. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, you have searched me; you know from within all of my beauty, my wounds and my sin. Deep in my heart—I've not spoken a word— you know my soul, and my thoughts you have heard. You who have made me and always are near, help me to shed my illusion and fear. Help me be truthful, and truthfully see, humbly transparent to your grace in me. Your loving presence within me each day go with me, guide me, and show me your way. Give me the eyes of your mercy and grace, to walk in love in each moment, each place. -
Grant Me Your Vision
Suggested Price: $0.00Grant Me Your VisionAdd 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: Grant me your vision, O God of pure light. May your deep wisdom and love give me sight. Help me to see who I am as you see: lovely and wounded and worth setting free. Take my illusions, my fear and my lies; shedding my veil, Lord, I open my eyes, seeing my beauty, my wounds and my sin, past all pretending, in truth deep within. Give me the eyes of your mercy and grace; help me to see you in each time and place. God, you who know me, please guide me, I pray, following Jesus in his loving way. -
Into the Darkness
Suggested Price: $3.00Into the DarknessAdd to cartOriginal song. Based on John 12.24 and Psalm 51. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Only the seed that has died and is buried lives to bear fruit, Jesus said. Lead me then into the darkness and dying, so you can raise me up from the dead. Jesus, help me die and rise. All of my living, my loves and desires, all of the things that I cling to, now I surrender to die and be buried. Raise me in following, serving you. Jesus, help me die and rise. Lead me to truth and have mercy and wash me deep in the dark of my being, a spirit like bread that is taken and broken: this is the death that is freeing. Jesus, help me die and rise. Give me a clean heart, a heart pure in spirit, willing and steadfast and made new. My life I lose; let your cross lift me up now. One joy restore to me: life in you. Jesus, help me die and rise. -
Into the Light
Suggested Price: $3.00Into the LightAdd to cartOriginal song. based on John 3.7, 19. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: God, I come into the light of your mercy and grace: may I receive your forgiveness, your loving embrace. You know my brokenness better than I, and my sin. You love me perfectly, setting me free once again. All of myself I now humbly bring into your light: wash me, renew me, forgive me and set me aright. God, I surrender myself to your life-giving love: may I be born by your Spirit, anew, from above. God, you have loved us so much that you even would give Jesus, your Son, the Beloved, so that we would live. Help us to live so we bring your good news into sight. Help us to trust in your grace and come into the light. -
Kyrie
Suggested Price: $3.00KyrieAdd to cartOriginal tune. Words are traditional, meaning "Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy." (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison. Kyrie Eleison. Grant us peace and mercy. -
Let Me Feel Your Wounds
Suggested Price: $3.00Let Me Feel Your WoundsAdd to cartOriginal song. Based on Jo.hn 20.25 (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Risen Christ, let me feel your wounds in the heart of the Lord whom I have crucified. May I feel your forgiving, and begin brand new living. May I know your rising there. Risen Christ, let me feel your wounds in the hands of the lonely and despairing ones. May I love with your caring. May I hope with your daring. May I know your rising there. Risen Christ, let me feel your wounds in the feet of the poor and homeless wandering. May I weep with their weeping. May I give without keeping. May I know your rising there. Risen Christ, let me feel your wounds in the marks of our violence upon the world. May I bless and heal. May your peace be my seal. May I know your rising there. -
Open Me
Suggested Price: $3.00Open MeAdd to cartOriginal song. A dialogue between soloist and congregation. Refrain may be used as a repeating chant. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Solo: Ears are stopped. Not listening. Eyes of my heart don't see a thing. I need you. Touch me and heal me and open my life with your love. All, Refrain: Open me. Open me. Open me. Open me. Mind is closed. Much to learn. Love, how I need to change and turn. So teach me. Open my mind to the new and the whole and to you. Refrain… Hands are closed. Hearts are hard. The Circle of Life is torn and scarred. So heal us. Open our hearts to the world so your blessing may flow. Refrain… Love is here. Grace abounds. Heaven itself is all around. Enlarge me. Open the doors of my soul and let light shine within. Refrain… -
Our Living Breath
Suggested Price: $0.00Our Living BreathAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Londonderry Air (Oh Danny Boy). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O Holy One, Creator of the stars of night, whose dust we are, created with your light, now breathe your spirit into us and give us life; give us new hearts that beat with your delight. Our dust and ashes, Lord, we give in faith to you. Receive our lives, our sin, our wounds, our death; and raise us up with Christ from death to life by grace. Lord, may we be your love and you our living breath. -
Out of the Deepest Depths (Ps. 130)
Suggested Price: $3.00Out of the Deepest Depths (Ps. 130)Add to cartOriginal song. Psalm 130. Includes choir version. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: Out of the deepest depths I cry to you, O God. O listen with your heart, and hear my pleading voice. If you counted sins, then no one could stand with you; but Love, you forgive. I wait for you, my God, for in your word I hope. I wait for you, Love, more than those who wait for dawn, yes, more than those who watch for the morning light I wait for you. O Hope, O Israel, hope in the Holy One. For with our God is love, God’s steadfast, faithful love, and power to redeem; for God is the one who will redeem us from sin. -
Return, My Soul
Suggested Price: $0.00Return, My SoulAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Finlandia. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Return, my soul, from all your hungry wandering, your fearful search for comfort and control. Let go my grasp of things apart from God, for God alone can heal and hold my soul. Return to God, for God alone will love me, and give me life, and bless and make me whole. Return, my soul, from all the things that dull me, that soothe my sense, but leave my sin in place. My broken heart, return from tricks and bargains; turn to the One who meets me face to face. Return to God. Each moment turn again; receive unending love and life and grace. I turn, O God, to you who love with patience. You walk beside me, though I cannot see. You are my life in dry and weary deserts, my spring of life that flows eternally. I turn to you, from false desire and grasping, and letting go, I find that you hold me. -
Savior, in this Holy Darkness
Suggested Price: $0.00Savior, in this Holy DarknessAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Savior, in our longing darkness, waiting in our deepest night, come and grace our hunger and yearnings; for we live by hope, not sight. Christ, we long for you. Come bless us. Help us all to walk in the light. Savior, in our lonely darkness come to us who inwardly mourn. Raise the love that lies a captive; mend the cloth that has been torn. Come to us, O God, with holy love: wake us with the light of morn. Savior, in our wounded darkness, shadowed by our evil ways, fear and anger and injustice, violence that shutters our praise, come, O Christ, and heal our broken lives with love's gentle, dawning rays. Savior, in this deepening darkness, how we long to see your face! Yet you move, unseen among us with your mercy and your grace. Give us eyes of faith to see you, hidden in each time and place. Savior, in this holy darkness, no one sees the flight of the dove. No one hears the song of the angels. Yet there shines a lone star above. Grant this joy, to know your presence here. Come and fill our hearts with your love. -
Set Me Free (Red Sea)
Suggested Price: $3.00Set Me Free (Red Sea)Add to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Hear an audio excerpt in the Product Description.)
Lyrics: 1. Forgive me, God of mercy, set me free. (Repeat)
Refrain: From slavery to the past, through the deep Read Sea, lead me God of love. Set me free.
2. From anger and resentment, set me free… Refrain 3. From blaming and from judgment, set me free… Refrain 4. To be completely loving, set me free… Refrain -
Set Me Free (To Love)
Suggested Price: $3.00Set Me Free (To Love)Add to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. Hear an audio excerpt in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: From all that binds me, Love, set me free. Set me free, Love, set me free. Oh Love, set me free to love. From what I fear, O Love set me free.... From what I cling to, Love, set me free... To live in perfect love, set me free.... -
Shepherd of Israel
Suggested Price: $3.00Shepherd of IsraelAdd to cartOriginal song. A dialogue between soloist and congregation. Three versions: Advent (Year B), Lent General, and Lent Lectionary (one for each lectionary year). Intended to be sung through the season, one verse (Advent) or two (Lent) each week. Cantor's verses reflect lectionary texts for the week. Also copntains a Kyrie that can be used independently. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics for Advent: Congregation: Kyrie Eleison. Christe Eleison. Kyrie Eleison. Come to us, and grant your peace. Cantor: Week 1. Shepherd of Israel, come, restore your people. Shine your face on us and save us, God. Week 2. Comfort, speak tenderly. Gently lead your people. God, forgive our sins and make us new. Week 3. Pour out your Spirit, God, Heal the brokenhearted. Love, prepare our hearts to see your light. Week 4. Grant us your mercy, God. Fill the poor with good things. Guide our feet into your way of peace. -
Shine In Me
Suggested Price: $0.00Shine In MeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Breathe On Me, Breath of God. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Shine in me, light of God: into my shadows shine, all that is dark and hidden, show; reveal with your light divine. Open the window, Love, into my heart’s abyss: fears and desires, all wants and wounds bring into your light and bless. What is unseen reveal; give me the gift of sight, lighten the shadows deep within and, Love, make my darkness light. Shine in me, light of God, your mercy gleaming bright. I am the lantern, you the flame. Love, let me live in your light. -
Woeful Cross
Suggested Price: $3.00Woeful CrossAdd to cartWoeful cross, saddest wood, death in me of all that’s good, I confess. Mother/Father, bless. Mercy. Original song. Most suitable for Good Friday. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Holy cross, mystery, love from fear of death set free. Sin’s dark lie. Here I die. Mercy. Gentle Christ on the cross, for our life your own life’s loss. You forgive, and we live. Mercy. Our own cross calling us to your love and gentleness: may we live, as you give, mercy. -
Your Will Be Done
Suggested Price: $3.00Your Will Be DoneAdd to cartOriginal song. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Father, take my willfulness. I surrender it to you grace alone. Mother, be my willingness. I can only ask: Your will be done. Jesus, take my brokenness. I surrender it to you grace alone. Jesus, heal my brokenness. I can only ask: Your will be done. Spirit, take my empty hands. I surrender them to you grace alone. Spirit, with my empty hands I can only ask: Your will be done.