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22 July 2008
Newer Hymns Worth Singing
If you don't have BPW then you won't have this hymn, which I recently discovered and think is worth singing. If you do, it is number 103 but I don't know the set tune, so I substituted 'Ellers' which is 624 (ii) (are you impressed? I am!). Chris Ellis, who wrote it, is currently minister of a church in Nottingham.
Open this book that we may see your word
Embodied in the drama of our earth -
Stories of people that your Spirit stirred,
Glimpses of hope and visions of new birth.
Open this book that we may meet the one
Who came as word-made-flesh for all to see;
Show us his life, all that was said and done,
That we might see ourselves as we could be.
Open our ears that we may hear you still;
Teach us to live as well as speak your word.
Open our eyes that we might face your will -
The word-made-flesh in those who call you 'Lord'.
(c) Christopher Ellis
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Well impressed - not many ministers that i know can use a metrical index or even know of its existence!
Posted by: Richard | 22 July 2008
Thanks for the prod - we used this hymn, with your suggested tune, on Sunday evening
Posted by: David | 28 July 2008
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