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All of the Gifts I Have
$0.00 or moreAll of the Gifts I HaveAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to Tune: Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Lyrics: All of the gifts I have, all that is within me, you give to me, O God, with care; all of my prayers and skills, passions and energies you grant to me to freely share.
Here are my hopes and dreams, attitudes and deepest loves, all of the treasure to which I cling. I will not hold them in, stilling my ardent song, but serving you I’ll freely sing.
In all I keep or give, may I do my very best in everything I say and do, in harmony with you, only to love and bless, with joy, to serve and honor you. -
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. -
Anointing
$0.00 or moreAnointingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Jesus, as we try to follow on your journey toward the cross, we ourselves will come to suffer weakness, loneliness and loss. But in love you turn to heal us: you let go all goods and powers, gently sharing all our troubles, making them your own, not ours. Jesus, in your grace and mercy, you share all our pain and tears. You anoint us with your love and heal our wounds and calm our fears. So, like Mary with her perfume, we bring gifts of love to you, sharing death and resurrection, trusting lives will be made new. -
Be the Living Word
$0.00 or moreBe the Living WordAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of HOLY MANNA. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As you go to serve Creation bear the Word of God with you, Word that brings forth light now dwelling in your heart and shining through. Do not merely say the words: become the Word. Embody grace. Be the living Word and give the love of God a human face. To the poor in spirit go, and give them bread for which they long. Nourish them for love and justice. Feed their souls and make them strong. Be the hearty bread that’s taken, blest and broken day by day. Be the bread of love made real, bread that Jesus gives away. Do not try to serve with only your own passion to impart. Let the love of God flow through you from the Source, from Heaven’s Heart. Pass along God’s deep forgiveness, flowing freely from the Lord. Be the wine of God’s great feast, the wine so generously poured. By the Spirit living in you, be the hope you hope to preach; be the peace you long to witness; be the truth you want to teach. Let your living be the Word that words alone cannot convey. Be the Word of love embodied; be the flesh of Christ today. -
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. -
Breath of God
$0.00 or moreBreath of GodAdd 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, Love, 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. God, may we be your love and you our living breath. Breathe into us the breath of your compassion, God, the breath to sing your praise in all we do, the breath to run the race of justice, long and far. Breathe, holy breath: empower and renew. O be the grace that fills our lungs, reviving us; O be the wind on which our hearts can soar; O be our life, our beauty and our living breath. O Spirit, come breathe in us now and evermore. -
Calling Me
$3.00 or moreCalling MeAdd to cartOriginal song. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Dear God, Creator eternally, you call everything to be. How are you calling me, even now? Who do you call me to be? Where is your image in me, calling me? Jesus, lord of the fishermen, calling your children, you call to me once again, even now. What will you lead me to do? How can I witness to you, calling me, calling me? Spirit, power of love in me, how do you set me free, what gifts are you giving me, even now? I am a vessel for you. Humbly I listen to you, calling me, calling me. -
Christ on the Mountain Height
$0.00 or moreChrist on the Mountain HeightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Christ on the mountain height, radiant with God’s delight, shining with love and mercy bright, from fear and death released, we come in thanks to feast upon your resurrection’s light. Jesus, Beloved One, bright as Easter’s rising sun, called to listen and follow you, fearless of pain or loss, help us to bear your cross with love’s pure light in all we do. Savior and dearest friend, Law and Prophet’s fullest end, strengthened by love, by the Spirit drawn, led by your radiant face, help us to live your grace and trust in Easter’s promised dawn. -
Christ We Are Baptized
$0.00 or moreChrist We Are BaptizedAdd 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: Christ we are baptized into your dying, all of our life poured out into yours; and we are baptized into your rising, life given to us from your deep stores. Christ we are baptized into your Body: we are all one community here. This is your presence, this is your rising: loving anew in your people dear. Christ we are baptized into your service: gentle and healing in all the strife, vessels of grace, who bear your redemption, bright with the light of eternal life. Christ we are baptized your New Creation, all of the world made new by your grace: dawn of your Realm of mercy and justice, Christ shining, risen, granting us peace. -
Christ, Ruler of All Things
$0.00 or moreChrist, Ruler of All ThingsAdd 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: ST. ELIZABETH (Fairest Lord Jesus)
Lyrics: Christ, Ruler of all things, what is seen and unseen, your love reigns; your grace is sure. Beneath our fear and strife, death fails to conquer life: your tender mercy still endures.
Christ, Ruler of our hearts, come and reign within us. Make us comrades, siblings, friends. Your love be our life, our only power, that gives us life that never ends.
Christ, Ruler of the earth, bring your gentle justice: your Realm come, your will be done. Heal all oppression; fill us with mercy, as faithful as the rising sun.
Christ, Ruler of all things, of what is and is to come, Risen One, our song we raise. Rule in our living; guide us with tender love. Your grace in us will be your praise. -
Feed My Sheep
$3.00 or moreFeed My SheepAdd to cartOriginal song. Based on John 21.15-19. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: “Feed my sheep. Tend my lambs. Do you love me? Reach your hands. Bear your cross faithfully. Give you life and follow me. Sight restored,wounded healed, God's deep love is thus revealed. God sent me: I send you, love, my new commend, to do. Serve the poor and the weak, help them find their voice to speak. Evil turned, mercy raised, love and justice are my praise. Peace be yours from this hour, and the Holy Spirit's power. Raised from death, born anew, live in me and I in you.” -
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. -
God, I surrender
$3.00 or moreGod, I surrenderAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
(Hear an audio clip in the Product Description.) Lyrics: God, I surrender myself to you, all that I have and all I do. All my desires I give to you. Take them from me and make me new. God, I surrender myself to you, all that I have and all I do. Trusting you wholly I follow you Take my life and make me new. God, I surrender myself to you, all that I have and all I do. I am a seed that has died in you. Raise me to serve and make me new. -
God, You Have Searched Me
$0.00 or moreGod, 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. -
Holy Spirit, Burn Within Us
$0.00 or moreHoly Spirit, Burn Within UsAdd 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: Holy Spirit, Sun of Heaven, source of light and warmth and power, fill us and transform us like a seed that turns into a flower. Kindle in your willing people joy’s bright spark, compassion’s flame. Set us all afire to bear your loving light in Jesus’ name. Holy Spirit, burn within us, radiant with your healing grace. Give us brand new ways to meet and love the stranger face to face. Help us find new ways of caring. Help us set new, daring goals. Give us brand new languages to speak your love to seeking souls. Holy Spirit, let your fire consume us, changing us at last. Let us rise like light emerging from the embers of the past. May the star of pure compassion shine within and set us free. Holy Spirit, make us all your flame that burns eternally. -
Holy Spirit, Wind of Heaven
$0.00 or moreHoly Spirit, Wind of HeavenAdd 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: Holy Spirit, Wind of Heaven, Breath of Life, our warmth and light, Power of Creation, bringing hopeful dawn from darkest night: you have birthed us, you have borne us; you have blessed us all our days, now you fill our lungs with singing; how you fill our hearts with praise! Holy Spirit, flame of passion, you who brought your Church to be, re-create us as your Body, holy in our unity. Fill us with your fierce compassion, gentle courage, trust and peace. Lead us all to love each other; make our sad divisions cease. Holy Spirit, Dove descending, heart of Christ within us all, speak your wisdom, move among us, help us hear your inner call. Be the only pow’r that moves us; be our life, O singing Dove! Holy Spirit, come, revive us! Fill us with your heart of love! -
I Belong to You
$0.00 or moreI Belong to YouAdd 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: Water is Wide / Gift of Love
Lyrics: Beloved, I belong to you. You give me birth; you make me new, your image formed, by Spirit stirred. You are the Song; I am your Word.
Whatever pains I may endure, I still belong. Your love is sure. Since I am yours, your will I do. I trust and give myself to you.
I am your coin to richly spend, so spend me, God, as you intend. You bless my end; you hold my worth; send me to love throughout the earth.
Beloved, I belong to you. Do with me what your love will do. Bear me, and I, through ease or strife will find in you eternal life. -
I Take Up My Cross
$3.00 or moreI Take Up My CrossAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Dialogue between soloist & Congregation. (Listen to it in the Product description below.) Lyrics: Letting go, I am held. I take up my cross and follow. 1. Jesus, you call to me, and draw me into your life. 2. Christ, I leave all behind, to follow you in love. 3. I yield my life to you, for you alone are God. 4. Loved with your costly love, I’ll suffer for the sake of love. 5. Christ, make my one desire to be to serve you in love. -
Immersed in Blessing
$0.00 or moreImmersed in BlessingAdd 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: Baptized in your grace with Jesus, loving God, we sing your praise. Echoing your own delight, with joy and thanks our song we raise. Your beloved children, birthed anew and rising from your womb, God, we bear your love through all our living, and beyond the tomb. God you heal, forgive and nourish, and revive us breath by breath; you restore our broken trust and save us from our fear of death. Like a dry and withered plant revived by water at its root, we are saved by streams of grace, for flourishing and bearing fruit. Bathed in grace, immersed in blessing, joined with your Beloved Son, how can we not love each other?— for your Spirit makes us One. Carried on a stream of mercy, springs beneath and rain above, may we flow with peace and in your Spirit flood the world with love. -
Isaiah 61
$0.00 or moreIsaiah 61Add to cartOriginal lyrics—Isaiah 61.1-4— set to the tune of O Little Town of Bethlehem. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: The Spirit of our loving God is strong in us and sure, sent in God’s grace to be God’s face with good news for the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, and set the captives free, and to proclaim in God’s own name their deep new liberty. We shall provide for those who mourn and broken lives repair, for God demands that in our hands God’s justice we shall bear. As earth brings forth new green things, our God will cause to rise the righteousness that all shall bless, the dawn that greets our eyes. -
Light for the World
$3.00 or moreLight for the WorldAdd to cartOriginal song. A dialogue between soloist and congregation. May be sung as a stand-alone song, or used as a weekly "theme song," especially in Epiphany, Year A. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) There are 19 verses to choose from. Sample lyrics: Chorus: Love, may we live by your light. Let us be light for the world. Sample verses: Magi who followed the light of your star offered their gifts to your glory. May we shine brightly wherever we are. Our love will tell your story. You are the light, the light of the world. Give thanks for the light shining in you. Let your light shine so that others may see, and glorify God. When you belong to God you are light, no longer held in the dark night. Live what is loving and true, my friends, as children of light. Give your attention to God's good news, like a candle that shines in a dark place; Let that light fill you and guide you, my friends, and shine with love. -
O Sovereign Love
$0.00 or moreO Sovereign LoveAdd 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: Amazing Grace Lyrics: Beloved, you who guard and guide and give for every need, reign in my heart, O Sovereign Christ; direct each thought and deed. O Sovereign Love, my root, my sun, my purpose and my peace, I spurn the world's vain, anxious rule, and trust your Law of Grace. The Empire of your justice, God, with mercy's clear command shall be my home; my loyalty is to no lesser land. In humble and obedient thanks I pledge my life to you, to join your work of justice, God, to make the world anew. Reign in my heart, O Christ, my Rule. In faith I am compelled to serve you, who by love alone have conquered all the world. -
Oh, Jesus
$3.00 or moreOh, JesusAdd to cartOriginal song. Solo in the style of a Black Spiritual (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Oh, Jesus, what have you done? Carried my burdens, every one, All of my sorrow, all of my sin, Like a mother gathering her children in. Now I’m left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your tender, tender love. Oh, Jesus, what have I done? Crucified my precious one. I didn't want to bear the pain or loss, So I left you alone to carry the cross. Now I'm left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your sufferin', sufferin', love. Oh, Jesus, what will you do? Forgive me like you always do. With not a word of wrath or blame, You died with love gently sayin' my name. Now I'm left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your precious, precious love. Oh, Jesus, what will I do? Give me the courage to follow you, To give my love if I live or die, And never again to crucify. For I'm left with nothin' at all but love, Nothin' but your dyin', dyin' love -
Resurrection Light (Transfiguration)
$0.00 or moreResurrection Light (Transfiguration)Add 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: Wake us, Jesus from our dreams, to see you in a holy light: Law and prophet, loving promise God has sent to guide us right. As Elijah, call us Godward, speak the living truth to us. As our Moses, lead us in our liberating exodus. Wake us, Jesus, from our fear of pain and death, and from our sin. Grant that we may live illumined by the world you usher in. All things shine with light reflected from the dawn that fills our sight. All of life is thus transfigured by your resurrection's light. Wake us, Jesus from complacent dreaming on the mountain's height. Teach us humble service: your departure is our guiding light. Preach the gospel, feed the hungry, heal the broken, give them sight. Give your life, then find it, shining bright with Resurrection light. -
Send Us In Love
$0.00 or moreSend Us In LoveAdd 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 in your mercy you are forgiving. Now in our living we give you praise, bearing your grace that blesses and frees us, following Jesus all of our days. Christ, your good news we share in thanksgiving, gratefully living as you have done. Make us your Body, faithfully sharing, loving and caring, serving as one. Send us in love now, Great Holy Spirit. All we inherit is ours to give. Set us to healing, humbly expressing your gracious blessing that makes us live. -
Send Us, Jesus
$0.00 or moreSend Us, JesusAdd 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: Send us, Jesus, in your spirit, held in your love, to this torn and troubled world, still held in your love. When despair and pain have found us, still your mercy wraps around us, giving hope that may astound us, held in your love. Send us, Jesus, bearing witness, held in your love, present with the poor and broken, held in your love. Evil looms, so cruel, deceiving, leaving victims shorn and grieving; still we will not cease believing, held in your love. Send us with the power of healing, held in your love. Give us courage, strength and wisdom, held in your love. To the selfish powers, oppressing, may we stand, your love expressing, facing fear with grace and blessing, held in your love. Send us for the sake of living, held in your love. Give us grace to be forgiving, held in your love. Facing evil's vile rejection, fearless love is resurrection. May we be your best reflection, held in your love. -
Set Me Free (Red Sea)
$3.00 or moreSet 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 -
Sharing the Light
$0.00 or moreSharing the LightAdd 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: Bridegroom, Beloved, all life is your bride. We come to celebrate here at your side. Feasting and dancing long brighten the night. Grateful we are for your love and your light. See, though, beyond our small circle of light those who are longing still, out in the night, those who though seeking have no lamp or oil: see how the bridegroom still loves them as well. God who has loved us and filled us with grace sends us in love to go out from this place, sharing our own lamps, to bless and invite, sharing our wealth, our abundance, our light. This is the true feast, the love of our Lord: sharing grace widely, for all are adored. Sharing is how we will find true delight, sharing the feast and the joy and the light. -
The Tree of Life
$0.00 or moreThe Tree of LifeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of The Water Is Wide or O Love, How Deep. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God, you plant deep in each soul the tree of life that makes us whole, whose leaves can heal and set us free, whose fruit will feed abundantly. The seed is small; the tree is great. We cannot know what gifts await. We only tend our plot with care, in loving deed and listening prayer. Teach me to trust, my soil to till, to plant and water, and be still. The seed will swell, and crack and grow, though how this is I cannot know. And I will die, and I will rise, each day a birth, a new surprise. And you will give life to the tree, and I behold your mystery. -
Vine and Branches
$3.00 or moreVine and BranchesAdd to cartOriginal song. Final verse, "Alleluia," may be suing as a round. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description below.) Lyrics: You are the vine and we are your branches, one with your life and rooted in your heart. Flowing with grace, with life you fill us, strengthened that nothing can break us apart. You are the vine and we are your branches. Deep in our hearts your life is flowing through. Rooted in you, we grow and flourish. You live within us, and we live in you. You are the vine and we are your branches. One common blood flows though all of our veins. We all are part of one another. We all are branches of one living vine. You are the vine and we are your branches, flowing with power greater than our own, bearing your fruit to all Creation, till all the seeds of your love have been sown. Alleluia. -
Washed In Your Waters
$0.00 or moreWashed In Your WatersAdd 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: Washed in your waters, baptized with Jesus, your sons and daughters, risen anew, each day we live, God, we drink your blessings. Our lives we give, then, gladly to you. Not our deserving, but your indwelling blessing us, serving, will be our guide. Source of our living, Word of your Presence, Spirit of giving, stay by our side. Filled with your Spirit, one in your Body, Christ, we inherit mercy and light. Guide and defend us, and daily send us into the world to share your delight. Spirit who frees us, give us your courage, to walk with Jesus all of our days, blessing and healing, justice revealing, till all the world sings in thanks and praise. -
You Are the Nerve
$0.00 or moreYou Are the NerveAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Finlandia. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God, your Christ is risen in your people. On earth Christ has no body now but ours. We are the flesh and blood of your compassion: moved by your Spirit, with its loving powers. God be our heart, and we will be your Body, serving in love in all our days and hours. We are your feet, that go with joy to others to share your love, the gospel we confess. We are your eyes that see what is and may be, that see each person’s need and loveliness. We are your hands, that work with strength for justice, your hands that shelter, heal and feed and bless. Love, move in me, and guide me by your Spirit, even when I don’t see or understand. My life is yours, to be your living Body, that I may love and serve at your command. This is my life, my purpose and my power: you are the nerve, and I your willing hand. -
You Are the Soil
$0.00 or moreYou Are the SoilAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, Holy Presence, source of life and blessing, you are the soil and we the seed. By your indwelling grace, we die in your embrace; you raise us up and we are freed. Jesus, Beloved One, healer, teacher, guide and friend, in you we come to die and rise: buried like seeds in earth, given new, gracious birth, with your love shining in our eyes. Spirit, breathe into us. Fill us with your loveliness. Flourish in us with your new green shoots. May your life freely flow, swelling our hearts to grow, that we may bear love's finest fruits. -
Your Hands and Your Face
$0.00 or moreYour Hands and Your FaceAdd 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 of all holiness, baptized in you, we are your Body: your presence shines through. We, poor in spirit, are blessed with your own. May our lives shine forth with your grace alone. We who with Jesus do mourn with the world shall see your banners of deep joy unfurled. We who are hungry for love freely shared feast at the banquet that you have prepared. May we be merciful and pure in heart, your gentle peacemakers, doing our part. Dying and rising, we do not fear loss, sealed with your Spirit and marked with your cross. Blest and beloved and baptized to serve, we are your Body and you are our nerve. Not by our effort, but by your pure grace, may we be your hands and your human face.