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We Love to
Sound Your Praises
PASSION CHORALE 7.6.7.6 D
We love to sound your
praises, To lift our hands above,
To sing how grace amazes, To celebrate your love.
Yet, God, your world is grieving; Is your heart breaking, too?
May we cry out, believing Laments can honor you.
Like Jeremiah, crying
For cities that were lost,
We see the children dying Who know war’s awful cost.
Each day repeats the story; Sin takes its toll again.
How can we sing your glory When our hearts break with them?
The scope of sin is
broader Than what the late news tells;
Rejecting living water, We dig our broken wells.
In gods of our own making We look for joy each day;
O God, is your heart breaking When we all turn away?
O God, you came to
save us In Christ, your suffering Son.
In his death you forgave us; In his life, joy is won!
And when this world is suffering, When songs of grief abound,
May we work for your kingdom Till alleluias sound!
Biblical References:
Jeremiah 2:5, 11, 13; 4:19; 8:18; John 3:16, Romans 5:8-10,
Philippians 4:4 & Revelation 19
Music: "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" by Hans Leo
Hassler, 1601, Harm. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1729
Text: Copyright © 2007 by Carolyn Winfrey
Gillette. All rights
reserved. Email:
bcgillette@comcast.net
This new hymn by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
was inspired by a Bible study on Jeremiah by
the Rev. Dr.
Richard Boyce, the Associate Professor of
Preaching and Pastoral Leadership at Union-PSCE at Charlotte,
during the
2007 Massanetta Springs Bible
Conference. Copies of Dr.
Boyce’s presentations, along with sermons by Thomas G. Long,
David A. Davis, Stacy
Ikard, Robert R. Miller, Grace Imathiu and others, may be ordered
in audio CD format from
Massanetta Springs.
The hymn makes references to lectionary
texts for September 2 and 23, 2007 and February 24, 2008.
Carolyn Winfrey Gillette gives free one-time use of the hymn to
those who support the Massanetta Springs Camp and Conference
Center. If your church uses the hymn, please include the copyright
and contact information and make a donation for its use to
Massanetta Springs Camp and Conference Center to support its
important work (712 Massanetta Springs Road, Harrisonburg, VA
22801). Since 1922 Massanetta Springs
has been providing God's people with welcoming hospitality and a
beautiful place for rest, reflection, spiritual growth and
renewal. Thank you!
Carolyn was born in Harrisonburg,
Virginia. Carolyn and her husband Bruce are the co-pastors of the
Limestone Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
Carolyn is the author of
Gifts of Love: New Hymns for Today’s Worship (Geneva
Press, 2000), a collection of her first 45 hymns. She hopes to
complete her second book of hymns (75 new hymns) in the summer of
2007.
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